One Giant Roach!

So last night I was talking to my mom on the phone as I walked into another room and flipped on the light, I immediately saw scurrying away a 3-4 inch roach!  Now, I know I live in Asia, but I have only seen a few roaches in my house and my southern roots keep pounding in my brain that roaches mean your house isn't clean or something isn't clean.  No, no roaches will not be in my house.  

Well I didn't have shoes on and there wasn't anything in sight to grab to kill this thing.  The dog was no help so it got away.....for the second time in two weeks.  Pretty sure the same roach was in the kitchen last week and got away then too.  By the time I get over screaming (yes, in this case, my poor mother probably thought I had been attacked or abducted) the roach usually has gone down some drain pipe or crack in the wall. And what is a dog good for if he won't eat the dad blame thing...??!!!  Plus I  had popped popcorn just last week asking that I would never see a roach or rather a roach that big again in my house.  I had faith too!  And low and behold I saw the same stinking one!  

So anyway this is a very silly story, but there is a lesson here.  I had just that afternoon listened to a lesson from Estwd about having perseverance in popcorn.  To keep on, and keep on and keep on and that your hearts desires aren't necessary wrong.  That as you continue to communicate with G, either He's gonna answer the request in some way (and yes, no is an answer) or that your heart's desires will change because you'll grow closer to Him and His desires will become yours.  It was really encouraging, because I was having some doubts about some things and it just a reaffirmation that it's okay to have those desires of your heart and to keep on keeping on with the popcorn.  So I'm gonna keep on popping about that certain subject and keep on keeping on..ha, ha, ha.  

So I calmed down from the 6 inch roach (yes it had grown since the last I typed) convinced my mother I was alive and well, and scolded the dog for not killing it and thought humph, so much for the popcorn about never seeing that thing again.  As funny and simple as this is, between my mom and the HS, G reminded me that maybe that roach was His reminder that I needed to keep popping that I wouldn't see that thing again.  Keep on asking....lol. 

As I tried to sleep last night and with not much success, thanks to the heat, I thought about all the things in my life I quit asking for/about.  A lost uncle that my dad and I used to ask for all the time when I was little, a nephew that needs to be back with group, family needs, my husband to come quickly....lol, the nations, friends...on and on.  Sometimes I ask once or twice, sometimes for a long time and then I quit because I don't' see an answer.  And maybe, just maybe G wants me to keep on keeping on.  

Just a reminder to the things in our life that are like 8 inch roaches that keep coming back and we don't' see a resolve....  What are the things you've stopped asking, seeking, and knocking for?  

Beautiful Feet