These are a few of my Frivolous Things

"You set your heart too much on frivolous things Anne, only to go crashing into despair when you don't get them." ~Marilla Anne of Avonlea

How I am like Anne in this respect! I want certain things to go my way. I want my dreams to work out the way I envisioned them and I definitley don't like setbacks.

However, I am not like Anne in many other ways. I would have given up and gone home at the first hint of adversity with Kingsport Ladies College. I probably would have been too intimidated to reach out to old Mrs. Harris. And I would have been hard pressed to keep a cheerful attitude when attacked by a whole town full of rich, influential Pringles.

And yet it was through this adversity that she got her heart's desire, to be a writer and publish a book, and also through these trying experiences that she realized the true feelings of her heart regarding Gilbert and her home.

God has been showing me lately that he loves me too much to give me things I want the way I want them sometimes. He cares enough to not give me the things I want at all sometimes. Because of his sovereignty and his eternal wisdom, he loves me enough to tell me "no" or "not now."

It can be difficult as a parent to say "no" to our children and yet we want what's best for them, we want to build their character. If I constantly gave my daughter everything she wanted and sought to please her with materialistic things, she may be happy for a moment, but I would be doing her a huge disfavor.

I'm so thankful that God loves me enough to disappoint me in my frivolous things, to continue to build my character to be like that of Christ. He knows my future and loves me enough to tell me "no" or "not now" and help change my heart for eternity.