Barbecues, beach parties, and bonfires are beckoning me to be distracted. But I need to get away from urgency and guilt of not meeting everyone’s needs to focus on being instead of doing.
I’ve been on a four-weekend speaking sprint and I’m exhausted. Running on fumes has left me in a spiritual comatose.
Between working, sitting in traffic, studying, balancing a wedding budget, speaking, and the ambitions of being the forlorn lovechild of Martha Stewart and Jillian Michaels, I’m ready for a break.
Ministry isn’t a profession. It’s a lifestyle. It’s what we do. It’s why we are created.
But lifestyles can drive us to do instead of be. Be still and know that I am God. Uh, yeah—still trying to balance that out. I don’t know how to necessarily be still. Matt thinks I have ADD but I told him I don’t believe in—SQUIRREL! Um, what was I saying?
Instead of doing Life, let’s be in it. Savor the moments with the Savior. Take time to make time for the One who made time. If not, we become concierges in life simply moving to the whims of people and their demands.
Be in the moment by doing nothing but enjoying it.
Bless you for allowing yourself to BE and reminding to rest of us to just stop and BE. "Be still and know that I am God." " And on the seventh day God RESTED!" Yes in the beginnng we had instructed example to rest or just BE. Hugs babygirl.
I'm having the opposite problem.
I'm just being and not doing.
But when you have nothing to do for weeks, how do you glorify God? How do you do anything that is worth doing?
People always tell me my family is my ministry-being the only christian in a house full of atheists-but I can't be around them all day. They pollute my mind and my attitudes, they bring out bitterness and frustration, I'm the worst witness to them, especially when I'm in a place where I have no fellowship, no one to be around who will influence me in good ways.
My friend tells me to read my Bible and pray all day, but my mind can't focus for that long, and when I just sit here, Satan starts to creep in and feed me lies. I almost wish I was as busy as you.
I guess there are two ends to the problem…being too busy, or not being busy enough.
"Ministry isn’t a profession. It’s a lifestyle. It’s what we do. It’s why we are created." I love this. You totally hit the nail on the head…This is why I believe so passionately that we must be like Jesus, departing often alone, to a private mountain or under a tree to pray. We need to be refreshed so that we can be emptied and be filled and be emptied and be filled without HERE IS THE KEY getting grumpy. Busy lives usually end up meaning grumpy lives. Just look at the 10 fwy or 210 at 5pm for example. Everyone appears to be grumpy. The other day my hubby and kids and I were driving home from a short trip to Newport beach and there was of course…traffic. However, we were listening to worship music, or KWVE I can't remember and were not annoyed! I realized it was because we were trying to stay in the spirit. So I totally agree with you…Get your rest on girl!
wow, this has been something that God has really been speaking to me about this season! I just wrote about the same thing yesterday too! -> http://lizclaudio.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/cheris…
I really love this line that you wrote: "Savor the moments with the Savior." Thanks for this. 🙂
You're an inspiration with your drive and your honesty. 🙂
WOW…Thanks for the reminder 😉
Hehe 🙂 This is an ever constant lesson I seem to be learning. However, God know has me in a new place and a new season where I am really truly learning this… he made me to be His child, not to try and prove it by all the things I do for Him. everything I once found my identity in, has been stripped away… I don't have a list of things to show to Him. It's hard, cause I am do-er kind a gal… but I know I need to learn how to BE !! But its soooo hard to stay still!!!
Ok, "Squirrel" is something my family has been screaming out for about 8 years now as we drive down the road! ~ Slow Down they say!
I hear you loud and clear, trying to balance Motherhood, Wifery (is this even a word? I dunno), Domestic goddessness, bookkeeping, nursing, spiritual life, public life, friends, co-workers demands, Parental demands (not me as the parent, but my Parents) the demand to be it all, be there at all, on demand at all times, ready to "act" at all time is CHALLENGING AND FRUSTRATING…..
Where does it stop?
where does it end?
Where do I fit in?
I'm pulled every which way every day, gotta do this and gotta do that! Called here, called there. Did I sit and listen to what He was telling me NO.
HE made me sit. I'm still sitting, waiting on the Lord to guide me to my next step. My next journey.
Where will He lead me? I don't know.
Am I ready to go there? I don't know.
Am I lathering it in Prayer? Yes,
can I do more? Yes.
if MY GOD brought me to it, HE and HE alone will bring me through it.
Psalm 23: He leads me beside the still waters, the green grasses, tis where I am now. I love it. I love what He is teaching me. Peace and be still and KNOW that I am God.
I totally needed this post! On Saturday I was torn between what I knew that I needed to do, what I wanted to do and what others wanted me to do…needless to say that I tried to please everyone and their momma and before the day was over I was so not loving it! I shut off my phone, put down my computer and just wrote….
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