Recently I've started to really feel the pressure from over-commitment. I've always been busy, always over scheduled and can usually handle it. Cheerleading tryouts took place last week along with graduate school registration and deadlines for my paperwork to keep up my teaching license. I felt really overwhelmed and I ended up giving up my exercise time last week in order to get everything accomplished. I really enjoy working out and hate skipping workouts because I take on too much. Yesterday morning I woke up to find the following devotion:
"I am afflicted with the cultural plague of busy-ness. Trying to find time each ay to write, walk, meditate, or make art and work makes it painfully obvious how busy I am. While I would not call myself a workaholic, I do tend to keep moving and I keep busy. " -Disciplines: A Book of Daily Devotions 2010
The devotion continued on to talk about God's presence in our lives and even though we are busy we can still find him in all of our activities. The author continued to discuss that his biggest spiritual problem is forgetting. Forgetting that God is with him all of the time. I too think this is my greatest challenge. At the end of the devotion the author provides several questions to ponder. One being, "When has God crashed into your life?" Just by reading that day's devotion, God crashed into my life. I've decided to take time each morning to read and pray and slow down. I can continue to stay busy and feel renewed as long as I remember that God is always there. If I make a priority to spend time each day, I know that things will fall into place.
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