I send out a Quote of the day via. text and today’s quote was “In the end, its not the years in your life that count, its the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln.

Shane: “Give me your rabbits.” Will surely live on in the annuls of blogdom phrases. Priceless. Leave it to God to be funny and profound all in the same breath.

ch:

While taking a shower this morning the Lord brought to mind the funniest illustration but it hit me powerfully. In The Two Towers movie there is a scene with Gollum and Sam. Gollum catches a couple of rabbits and Sam, much to Gollum’s dismay, cooks them up in a stew. Gollum is asking “What’s it doing?” and saying “It ruin’s it.” and “Stupid fat Hobbit.” Sam knows what he’s doing, and that cooked rabbit in a stew taste better then raw meat. Then the Lord asked me the question that hit me. “Will you give me your rabbits?”

Like Gollum we can so easily ask “What’s it doing?” because we don’t understand why he seems to be causing apparent pain in our lives. We try to advise God with our cries of “It ruins it!” and occasionally we might even mutter angrily in our little pouting self-pity parties. “Stupid fat Hobbit.” I’ve been there. Still am at times. Quite often, I act like “God I know you know everything, but don’t you understand…” and I proceed to try to advise God.

But then he asked me: “Will you give me your rabbits?” (Meaning, will you let me work things out instead of yourself?)

I attended a Graduation event last night as well. By the time my Mom and I got home we were just about in tears discussing where are lives are at the moment and the things we are concerned with. In a lot of ways I believe the “Will you give me your rabbits?” question God asked me this morning was an answer to what Mom and I were talking about last night. We were discussing the dilemma of things that really are quite outside of our control.

God is moving, where there were dry dead leaves a few weeks ago I am now seeing leaves green with life!