Seems like there's always stuff to sort around here! I just got through a major organization effort at the beginning of the year. Now my office and desk look like the Tasmanian Devil from the comic strips whirled through. My online calendars are unreliable: I found an afternoon appointment for today, entered on my phone calendar, that didn't synch to my computer. Who knows what else I missed?
I'm scanning years of university notes, so there are full and half-full boxes of scanned pages. "Keep them until you know if it stored correctly on your computer," warns my husband. So boxes of random notes, in and out of page order, have begun to pile up near the scanner.
For someone whose mind ranges as far and wide as mine, physical order is a must. I tend to pile printouts of interesting ideas. "I'll get to those later today," or "I can read that by week's end," I tell myself. That often is true... but when it's not, the stacks mount into chaotic read-me obligations. Those piles drive me crazy.
Today is a sorting day. Between three appointments (one at home, thank God!), I have to tackle the books, magazines, and papers in this one room. Besides, I need one of the papers for a morning appointment.
Sorting. Sorting. As fast as I can.
No matter how wonderful life it, troubles come. Schedules get interrupted. We get sidetracked by unforseen appointments or information. Perhaps people we know need more attention than we'd planned to give them.
I'm so glad God can keep track of time, people, and everything in this world. He never loses an opportunity to renew and restore, whether it's humanity or nature.
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by everything you could be doing, eating, seeing, or thinking? How do you sort through your possibilities and obligations?
Read more:
*Isaac's men then dug another well, but again there was a dispute over it. So Isaac named it Sitnah (which means 'hostility'). …
From there Isaac moved to Beersheba, where the LORD appeared to
him on the night of his arrival. 'I am the God of your father, Abraham,'
he said. 'Do not be afraid, for I am with you and will bless you. I
will multiply your descendants, and they will become a great nation. I
will do this because of my promise to Abraham, my servant.'…
One day King Abimelech came from Gerar with his adviser,
Ahuzzath, and also Phicol, his army commander. 'Why have you come here?'
Isaac asked. 'You obviously hate me, since you kicked me off your
land.'
They replied, 'We can plainly see that the LORD is with you. So
we want to enter into a sworn treaty with you. Let's make a covenant.'…
That very day Isaac's servants came and told him about a new well they had dug. 'We've found water!' they exclaimed….
But Esau's wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 26:21, 23–24, 26–28, 32, 35 NLT
*"To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:25-26 NIV
*If
we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so
then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. Romans 14:8 NLT
Moravian Prayer: Liberating
God, we follow your ordinances over the ways of human construction. At
times, this may bring criticism upon ourselves, but may we be ever
faithful to the way of Christ over any other semblance of law. Amen.
