There are days I wake up thinking about
all the things I have to do — and how I probably won’t get them done.
Of course, those are the days where I
fell asleep the night before thinking about all the things I had to do when I
woke up in the morning … and all the things I left undone that day …
It’s a wretched, wretched cycle, isn’t
it?
And sometimes I get halfway through
those days before I realize I’ve left God entirely out of the equation.
Sometimes I may have given him a passing nod — a “Be with you in a moment, God”
kind of acknowledgement.
As if all that other stuff is more
important than God.
As if what I have to do is more
important than what he might have to say about the next 24 hours, about me,
about the other people in my life.
How presumptuous.
How foolish.
Why do I rush past the God who is able
… and wonder why I’m so exhausted at the end of the day?
Why do I forget that he can accomplish
what I can’t … he can keep me in the center of his will when I feel off-kilter
… he’s never bewildered. He has a plan — and I’m invited to be part of it.
I just have to accept the invitation —
day by day by day.
In Your Words: What do you
need God to do in your life today? Accomplish? Provide? Help? Save? Keep?
Subdue?
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A nonfiction writer and editor who said she’d never write fiction, Beth is now a novelist with Howard Books. She enjoys writing inspirational contemporary romance because she believes there’s more to happily-ever-after than the fairy tales tell us. Connect with Beth on her website, Twitter, Facebook, or check out her blog on quotes, In Others’ Words.
