Gone...

Many of you are either Sandalites or know some one who is and so your aware of our fast this past week.  If for some reason your in the dark let me catch you up. Our church fasted this week. Each day we added something new to our fasting list. Computers were day two. Which meant a break from blogging.
I want to come to you and share all that God as shown me this past week. Its amazing how much God speaks to you when you are there and listening. He is so personal. This upcoming week is a rough week for me. I have some strong emotions tied to it however I praise God because he is so Faithful! He knew I needed this past week to focus on him. To bring me closer to him. He knew that I emotionally I am week and by realigning my life and focusing on him he will pull me through. I needed to remind myself that he is all I need. Thank you Spirit for meeting me this week!
Ok so besides the fact that God gave me focus and he was preparing me for this week to come I also began to re-evaluate my life. When all you have are the simple things in your day you realize how much you really don’t need. I claim that my life is so busy, its chaotic, it’s a whirlwind. Well what I’ve learned this week is that it’s really not. What my life is consumed by is stupid mindless junk that I focus too much time on. I will read an email or blog then get side tracked and surf the web and read things that are of no meaning to me. In the car I will listen to the radio or talk on the phone instead of talking to my kids. I will watch TV and waste my time watching shows that are lame instead of spending time with my man. I think to much of what I will eat rather than God.  OH how my long for a simple life. I long to have time with my kids, I long to have time to date my man, I long to build my relationship with my God. Yet the world praises those who work, work, work. The busier you are the
better. The more you do the Greater you will become.  It’s an evil trap that Satan loves to do to us. The busier we are the less time we will look to God. Before we know its been a week since we have been in the word and even thought about God and we wonder why we feel so lonely.  Maybe its been 2 months since you and your spouse have gone out on a date and we wonder why our marriages are falling apart.  We wonder were our lives have gone but in reality we are the ones that are wasting them away. We live each day but the problem is we waste precious time on stupid stuff. Instead we need to choose to focus on what is priceless. This leads me to this…I don’t know how much longer I will be blogging. Its just one of those things that consumes me. Takes too much time and its something I don’t have to do. I don’t know I if what will happen but I just know that this past week I felt so free to slow down, my list of worries so much lighter my focus in the right places. Is blogging wrong, heck no I love the community but for me my plate is full so it might not be for me. We will see.  H

Comments

[Janie]

THAT was beautiful.

[Tim]

You are not alone in this. I have talked to many people lately about life getting to busy. There are just to many "good" things we can fill our lifes with. I have been examining myself as well, and have notice somethings I need to cut out,like TV (well maybe except 24, and March Madness). Sometimes I just wish that manna would fall from the sky and we would have no need to work, but that is just a whole nother conversation.

[nani]

I THINK ITS WONDERFUL -----YOU KNOW THE SAYING SMELL THE COFFEE--ROSES--IT IS NOT EASY TO FOCUS I HAVED TO TRY MEDITATION FOR YEARS SOME TIMES IT WORKS FFOR ME AND I HAVE TO GET BCK TO IT---YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME LUV YA N

[Hale-Yeah!]

Good Riddance! Just Messin'. Simplicity is amazing. It's such a struggle to cut those things out. It seems like we do it for awhile, but then there we are again, piling stuff up. Good for you Heath.