This week Joel (my wonderful and dashingly handsome husband) started his 1st 7 week stint of in class learning in his carpentry program. I felt like a proud mom as I loaded up his backpack and handed him an apple as headed out the door. O.K. so there was no backpack and he doesn't like apples but I still felt like a proud mom. As he drove away I entered the world of being, for the 1st time, the primary financial provider of the house. I thought to myself "o.k. Domnique time to bring home the bacon, lean bacon, but bacon none the less" It's day 4 and aside from my stress level being unusually high do to a lot going on and a lack of time on my hands I've found myself sitting here...at work... pondering the concept of a still and quiet place.
When life gets busy and as a direct result stressfull I tend to lose the ability to filter out the not so important from the important. I usually find when this situation comes about that my creator lets me go just long enough to really make his point. Well this time around he obviously didn't feel it so necissary and gave me what I call a God smack. It's pretty much the equivillent of running down the hall, your body going one way and your head turned the other way and just as you go to aline your head and your body it happens......you run right into a wall, which for the record I have acutally done and will never forget how quikly my actions were put in check.
" Be still and Know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" Psalm 46:10 (ESV)
God Smack translations
Be Still = Dominique slow down, breath, take a sip of water
KNOW = I love you, trust me, take my hand
I will be Exalted = Dinner can wait, laundry can wait, cleaning can wait, everything can wait, I have so much more to offer
The Picture above is of Joel just outside our cabin doing his favorite thing.....fishing. Since the day I meet him he has said that being in God's creation is where he meets Jesus, it's his still and quite place. I'm not sure that I've found that still and quiet place that I undoutably meet Jesus but until I find that place I'll continue to accept the randam places like at my desk at work that I do meet Him.
3 comments:
Thanks for the reminder... I need to hear that one often. Have you ever read "Sacred Pathways" by Gary Thomas. I loved it... it's on my top ten most influential books list. It's all about our Spiritual personality types and it may help you figure out your "still and quiet place". If you read it let me know your thoughts.
preach it sista!
love it when you blog..
you give us such good advice and reminders to love well, live for the moment, be honest and trust in the Lord. ..very good truths you preach
Thanks for sharing that Dom, always a good reminder. We all get so busy so fast... sometimes we forget HE is God! and nothing else.
Love Melissa
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