So.
Do you ever have one of “those” weeks? You know – the kind where you wonder where you left your brain the day you scheduled way more than a sane human could possibly accomplish?
Two weeks ago I actually felt bored and didn’t like it. Stupid me.
This has been one of “those” weeks. I’ve spent my days furiously crossing off my “to do” list and have fallen into bed each night exhausted. Honestly though, it wasn’t all my fault. It has just been one of those “when it rains it pours” weeks where everything happened at once. Track tournament. Minumum day. Deadlines. Doctor’s appointments. Birthdays. Surgery. Wedding. Special event at church. Child home from college. Open house at school. Soccer tournament.
You get the picture.
Once upon a time the extra stress of extra “stuff” would have had the potential to make this realitively sane woman go from zero to Def Con four in a matter of moments. But (yea God!) not this week.
Not even when I sped 50 miles per hour into an oncoming swarm of 1000 insects a mere 30 minutes after having my car washed.
Or when I had to go to 5 different stores to get a wedding gift.
Or when my husband forgot his tie for above said wedding.
And he’s the pastor.
What made the difference? Living one moment at a time. Doing one thing at a time. Finally realizing that no matter how much I stress – or don’t stress – the important things all get done in the end.
I have heard it said that when you don’t know what to do, just do the next right thing.
So that’s what I have done. Slowly, systematically, I have chosen to do the next right thing. And let me tell you girlfriend to girlfriend – it has made all the difference. A difference in my outlook. A difference in my accomplishments. A difference in my attitude. A difference in me.
But really I have done nothing more than what the Jesus tells me to do:
“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” (Maathew 6:34)
And why shouldn’t I worry and fret about tomorrow? Well, because God promises to take care of me today – and tomorrow – if I’ll seek Him first.
Is God practical, or what? He knows that much of our lives involves eating and dressing and working and the rest. But he doesn’t want all our “to do’s” to diminish our living. And he certainly doesn’t want it to dimish our loving. In fact, he wants all the “stuff’ of life to increase our love for Him.
How? By seeking and depending on Him in the midst of it all.
How about it? Can you see God in the stuff of your life? Even in those crazy moments when you are overbooked and overworked? You can if you’ll just seek Him, depend on Him and do the next right thing.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
(Mathew 6 25 – 33)
