This
year for me is about the journey not the end goal.
I
still have goals for this year, but instead of focusing all my energy on reaching
my goals. I am going to spend more time focusing on the journey to my goals and
what I learn along the way.
I
want to openly accept any interruptions that may come my way and to choose to
use them as necessary growth opportunities.
I have big
dreams and big goals, and most years recently I have started the New Year with
an extremely long list of goal/dreams, most of which by mid-year I
have fallen short of and then spend the rest of the year trying to catch up.
This year I have
decided to be different and have decided to work on only a couple of main
goals/dreams so that they may hopefully become a reality even with all the
anticipated interruptions.
As a
wife and mother of two small children I am sure there will be
many interruptions into 'my plans' for this year, I am also
anticipating God's interruptions for me this year.
I had anticipated
writing my blog last night, however I was interrupted by my youngest
who was inconsolably crying almost hysterically and demanding her mothers
attention until she calmed sometime later.
Which was a real attitude check for
me, as all I wanted to do was to get her calm enough so I could go and write my
blog. As the minutes passed, I realised that even though it was not a
particularly pleasant time with my baby girl, it was a time where she
needed me more. It was a time of cuddling and consoling that I will never have
again.
It was at that point that I realised I needed to focus my
attention on her and make the most of some mother-daughter bonding time as
someday soon she will be too big to sit on my lap and just cuddle.
Needless to
say I cherished every moment from that point on and even enjoyed a giggle or two
once she was her happy self again, before putting her back to bed.
It
made me realise how often we overlook just spending time in God's lap cuddling
with him, obviously we can't physically do this, making the most of the
precious minutes we have as we will never have them back again.
Are
we too busy for God's interruptions?
I
pray this year that we will cherish
His interruptions as divine encounters with Him and to see
them as something to look forward to with anticipation not dread.
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