Are You Being Passive Aggressive with God?

passive-agressive-spiritually.jpgLook I am not a great writer, and this blog is just some random thoughts God has been sharing with me.  So bare with my inadequate writing and just look for the meaning of the message I am trying to convey.  For those of you have been following my blogs over the last 2 years, you may have noticed a slight change in the makeup of my entries.  Two years ago most of the entries were about what God was doing in me and the way He was refining me.  Over the last two years those have faded to the occasional post, to more post about “non-God” related topics. 

I have been struggling through a pretty dry season in my relationship with God over the two year period.  I am sure most of that is my fault, but I do believe that God does allow for periods like this.  Not that He is not there, but the nature of how He may reveal Himself may be different. 

What I believe God has shown me lately is that during this time I have been being passive-aggressive with Him.  Passive aggressive is defined as below:
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How I built my portable Chicken Coop and Chicken Pen

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I am not going to drag this post out…we now have 8 chickens in the backyard.  As you can see from the pictures, I put the chicken coop on wheels so I could move it around the backyard as needed.  I did not want a mud pit developing from a stationary coop.  The coop is 4′W x 8′L and 6′H to the peak.  It has 4 nesting boxes, and a self feeder that holds about 100 pounds of starter feed.  I added vents to the peak, windows to the front for ventilation.  I also, added 1/2″ x 1/2″ fencing to the inside of the windows so they could not peck the screen or a predator could not push through the screen over night.

I added an old truck bed-liner to the bottom of the coop.  You can do this by calling your local Line-X dealer and ask for a free plastic bed-liner.  Anyway, I put straw on top of the bed-liner, so the chickens don’t know the difference, but it allows me to pull the entire floor out so I can discard all the chicken leftovers.  I dump it in the garden during none growing seasons and then just hose off the plastic liner and reinsert.

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