“Nothing else but this seeing God in everything will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only the instruments for accomplishing His tender and wise purposes toward us, and we shall even find ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessings they bring . . .
“The human beings around us are often the bottles that hold our medicine, but it is our Father’s hand of love that pours out the medicine, and compels us to drink it . . . ”
~Hannah Whitall Smith in The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life
Joyce Landorf describes those who annoy us or bring us pain (and who are usually related to us in some way) our irregular people. Can you see God in your irregular person? How has that person helped change you for the good?
Still drinking the medicine,
Sandy
Welcome to Still Saturday where we pause after a busy week, move in quiet pilgrimage, maybe linger a while in some still place, and soak in the beauty of images and words. We’d love for you to join us. Get the details on the left, grab your favorite button, and link up below. We all love to hear if something especially speaks to your heart, but please don’t feel pressured to comment. Simply take some time to gaze long and drink deep.
I love the classic, The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life! Thank you for sharing this quote from one of my favorites. Also, thanks so much for being such a gracious hostess each week.
Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing the stillness with us.
Oh, here is a book I have not read that I obviously need to add to my list…. wow!
Hope you have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend, Sandy! 🙂
Smith or Landorf? They’re both very different and both good. Smith is a classic. 🙂
A beautiful weekend to you, too, my friend.
Dear Sandra
If I remind myself that I am also someone else’s irregular person, it stands to reason that if I want to be treated with love and respect, I first need to do so towards my irregular family, don’t you think. I love Hannah Whitehall Smith’s work.
God bless you this weekend, Sandra
Mia
Oh Mia. Thank you for that reminder. That we are also someone’s irregular person.
Both books contain wonderful truths. I read Irregular People years ago & was never able to hold onto my copy. I truly do not know how many I “lent” & never got back 🙂 Oh, to always remember that irregular people are hurt people themselves. Thank you for the reminder!
Blessings,
Joanne
Exactly, Joanne! Those who hurt–hurt. Thank you.
My reading list keeps growing. I’m hoping for many “Still Saturday’s” with warm weather and time on my patio with a good book. Thanks for sharing. I lead a devotional last night on loving like Jesus and I focused on how to love we need to stop, look, and listen. The quotes you shared remind me we need to see the irregular and regular. Don’t we all just long to be seen?
Thank you for hosting. Blessings to you. Beth
To be noticed–yes. And that takes time, takes being still for us to notice. I’m so glad we’re not invisible to Him.
I see His undeniable fingerprints in the wonder of His creation. xox
Me, too! And I see Him in you. But you are not irregular to me. 🙂
Hmmmm, the irregular people in our lives… Surely I am one as well…. Thanks for this Sandy. You make me think.
Surely I am one, too!
So, so needed this today!
Praying for you this morning, friend.
We are all broken in different ways . . . good words from Hannah Whitall Smith to meditate on.
Have a blessed holiday weekend.
Hannah Whitall Smith is one of the 50 women in my book – I read that book for my research! It was so good — so many wise nuggets in there … I plan to go back and read it more slowly after I am done with this project.
How is #50 coming along? Easily I do hope.
These irregular people, I’ve been letting them spin me around. This advice is so much better. Thank you, Sandra.
And thank you for hosting us.
Sandy, I woke up with one of those ‘irregular’ people and realized uh, God was speaking, loud and clear, through him. Jesus, give me grace as I continue to ‘take the medicine’ as you say….:-) Thanks for sharing this.
Such a beautiful quoted passage. We can see His beauty in all He created. May we see others with His eyes of love. Thanks for hosting & God bless.
Today, I see God in how He enabled me to be kind to myself.
drinking, swallowing…needed that medicine right now….trusting my Great Physician
thanks for sharing this friend
The quote and the thought of seeing God in an “irregular person” is something I’ve also experienced – God is sending often “people with a mission” in our way, even if we may not recognize the mission / work God is doing with us at the moment … I needed this reminder!
I am an irregular person myself. Thank you for giving me something to think on.