In our neck
of the woods, the weather is still up and down as it goes from 90+ degrees one
day with 100 and 103 in the garden to 70 degrees the following day.
I am not
complaining, only reporting, preparing myself for late June, July, August and
September knowing that we will be having heat waves.
May was a
month filled with a lot of Dr. appointments and recovery.
Feeling quite
a bit better today; better than I have been in quite a while.
I do hope
that continues.
Josh and Deed
weren’t using their treadmill anymore, so gave it to us and took the old one
down to Salvation Army. It has more
bells and whistles, which I hope, eventually, to take advantage of in the near
future.
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1 Chronicles 29:11
Thine, O Lord
is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the
majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the
kingdom, O Lord, and
thou art exalted as head above all.
So many days
we get wrapped up in our selves. There
is so much to do; the ‘Tyranny of The Urgent’ that suddenly appears and makes us
feel we MUST deal with it immediately takes us away from our duties, our plans,
for the day.
When that
happens it throws us off for the day. Yes, there are times we must hurriedly
take on whatever comes up.
Most times
however, if we are really prioritizing our day we realize it can be set aside,
for a while, and we can go about our regular duties and take care of that
situation later.
An old saying
is very much worth considering and thinking about when this happens: “Your poor planning does not make an
emergency on my part.” Many times it is
someone else who puts the pressure on us, someone who could have given more time
– bosses may have a pass, but, even there we can often prioritize our time. -
Yep, I have done the ‘this needs to be done’ but when they ask if it must
be done ‘right now?’ I often realized that the answer was, no.
And of course
there are exceptions to the rule. Especially in my line of work, well, what used
to be my line of work, responding to emergencies.
Rarely,
however, do emergencies come down 24 hours a day seven days a week that take all
of our energy and our thought process to complete.
But even with
that into consideration, it is still up to us to prioritize our day, to plan our
day out; and the very first thing we should put on our list for the day is to
remember to praise our God, to thank Him for His many blessings and to meditate
on His words even if it is only for a few minutes.
Doing so
helps us put into perspective who we are, who God is and why our relationship
with God is so important.
We don’t need
elaborate phrases, we do not need prearrange prayers, what we need is to take
time to be with Him and allow Him to work within our heart and soul; just
talking with Him as we would any other relationship.
We have so
many distractions in this world, so many things that we are ‘having’ to do that
we forget that God is the most important relationship we have.
May we always
take time out of our busy day to look around us and to see the many blessings we
have because God is God.
Later, Art
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