In yesterday's post, I talked about my Mad-Multitasking-Skills. While I'm so NOW focused, I wanted to address long-term. This is where it gets juicy. Busy-busy causes me to forget about long term but when I am pausing...I'm thinking, "Ugh, where is God in all this? Where's He taking me?"
An email speaking directly to this was waiting for me in my inbox Monday a.m. from a close friend. This girl usually sticks me straight in the heart. Same deal today. Her words below:
Tonight as I was reading and praying and trying to just get life in order... I came across a passage in Luke 12. Verse 45 starts off like this: But suppose the servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time....."
It spoke volumes to my heart. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a holding pattern...waiting for the next course of my meal! BUT as I read this verse tonight His spirit began to work in my hard little heart! I was convicted at my unspoken... "My master is taking too long (fill in the blank...) ...with sending me a husband and children, and fulfilling my dreams. My master sure is taking His sweet time!" Even though I'm praying and seeking and living life.... I must admit that the deepest of my sighs has been, "My master is taking a long time!!!" I was reminded and even wrote it in the margin of my Bible of a FRIENDS episode (huge surprise I know)! Joey has just been given the lead role in Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. He walks into the coffee house and Chandler says: So are you ready to star in your own TV show!?! And Joey begins to talk and freaks out and says... This has been my dream forever so WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN PREPARING FOR IT!!!!
Am I preparing to be a great wife, mother, minister right now? What AM I doing? Your guess is as good as mine...twiddling my thumbs I guess.... deeply sighing..."My master sure is taking a long time." As you probably already know from the rest of the passage.... the guy who is found saying this to himself... well, he's not the shining star at the end! Guess I just needed to confess that but also let you know that I intend to figure out what to do about it. A lot of times we feel like our Master is taking His sweet time!
An email speaking directly to this was waiting for me in my inbox Monday a.m. from a close friend. This girl usually sticks me straight in the heart. Same deal today. Her words below:
Tonight as I was reading and praying and trying to just get life in order... I came across a passage in Luke 12. Verse 45 starts off like this: But suppose the servant says to himself, "My master is taking a long time....."
It spoke volumes to my heart. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a holding pattern...waiting for the next course of my meal! BUT as I read this verse tonight His spirit began to work in my hard little heart! I was convicted at my unspoken... "My master is taking too long (fill in the blank...) ...with sending me a husband and children, and fulfilling my dreams. My master sure is taking His sweet time!" Even though I'm praying and seeking and living life.... I must admit that the deepest of my sighs has been, "My master is taking a long time!!!" I was reminded and even wrote it in the margin of my Bible of a FRIENDS episode (huge surprise I know)! Joey has just been given the lead role in Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E. He walks into the coffee house and Chandler says: So are you ready to star in your own TV show!?! And Joey begins to talk and freaks out and says... This has been my dream forever so WHY HAVE I NOT BEEN PREPARING FOR IT!!!!
Am I preparing to be a great wife, mother, minister right now? What AM I doing? Your guess is as good as mine...twiddling my thumbs I guess.... deeply sighing..."My master sure is taking a long time." As you probably already know from the rest of the passage.... the guy who is found saying this to himself... well, he's not the shining star at the end! Guess I just needed to confess that but also let you know that I intend to figure out what to do about it. A lot of times we feel like our Master is taking His sweet time!
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YIKES. That's it. My heart deeply sighing along with hers. That phrase keeps popping up for me...leaning me more toward God's heart. Trying to chew on the fact that God made us to live & adore Him. Learning to balance (again!) the short and long-term. Where to do they mesh? The truth is...the lines are even there.
YIKES. That's it. My heart deeply sighing along with hers. That phrase keeps popping up for me...leaning me more toward God's heart. Trying to chew on the fact that God made us to live & adore Him. Learning to balance (again!) the short and long-term. Where to do they mesh? The truth is...the lines are even there.
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