Always in a Hurry

~ my personal synopsis of a recent sermon~





Are you stricken with the sickness that seems to be plaguing so many people today?  With this sickness, there is no fever involved and no visits to the doctor. Its symptoms affect everyone around you, but most importantly, they affect you. The worst part about this sickness is you miss out on so many of life's wonderful moments. 

It's called hurry sickness.  Does it sound familiar? It's otherwise known as a sense of time urgency.

Ask yourself, "Is time a major factor in my life?"

Do you find yourself running around trying to get one thing done just so you can complete another?

Does your job place so many demands on you that you can hardly focus on what your real role is supposed to be? Maybe your real role at work involves people, yet you have so much paperwork to be completed you could easily forget about the people you are there to serve. Maybe you even start to see them as an interruption.

Do you take your work home with you and when your own child asks you a question while in the midst of getting your work done, you only give them a tiny portion of your attention, nodding, and not really knowing what they are saying? After all, you have deadlines to meet. You are hurried. Maybe you even start to see them as an interruption.

Hurry hates interruption.

        You can't love.
               You can't listen to a child.
                      Basically, you can't multi-task attention.

Hurry is an enemy.

Take note, being hurried is not being busy.  Being busy can be a good thing.  There is nothing really good about being hurried. Remember, being hurried is about time urgency.  You don't have time for one thing because you are so hurried to do another.

If you are a hurried person, you don't have time for interruptions in your life.  You don't have time to jump some one's car off. You don't have time to talk to someone in need.  You don't have time to help the person who dropped something.  You can't slow down long enough to talk to your kids.

So, what is your IQ anyway?  No, I am not talking about your intelligence quotient.  I'm talking about your Interruptibility Quotient.  How many times do you allow for interruptions in your life?  Do you slow down long enough to let God interrupt your life?  What about when you didn't stop to help a person or talk to someone in need? Was that a prompt from God?  It does make you think.

The next time you feel hurried or overcome with time urgency, take a moment to ponder if this interruption is really a disguise from God that he is trying to work in your life.  I plan on trying it myself. 

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Faith Journey

~ my personal synopsis of a recent sermon~

As you work to strengthen your faith, do you find yourself wrestling with God?

It's funny how people sometimes seem to have a little 'g' god.  This is the god they created.  These people go to church, they are kind and generous, but when it comes to their own sin, they are a follower of their 'god'.  These people create a god the way they want god to be. It is a fabrication of reality. Their god is more accepting of sin, especially their sin.  Their god will continue to overlook repeated sin, especially their repeated sin.  Their god is okay with their cheating, lying, and deceiving. Their god is okay with being a follower on Sunday and not Monday-Saturday. These people are willing to condemn others for sinning, but they know their god will overlook these same actions when they display them. Basically, these people are pretending to be something they are not.  They pretend to be a follower of the big "G" God, but the reality is, they are not. Point being......God can't bless pretenders.

So, when God asks you, "Who are you?"  What do you say?

Are you a follower, or are you a FOLLOWER?

It's sort of like being asked the question, "Can you ride a bike?"  What do you say?

Let me ask you this, "Can you ride a bike, or can you RIDE a bike?"

If you said you can ride a bike, take 5 minutes to watch this video, and then continue reading below.

Understand that there is riding a bike, and then there is RIDING a bike.  There is being a follower, and there is being a FOLLOWER.  A true faith journey can be a radical ride. There is always a natural resistance to God.  This ride can be mysterious in that there will always be things you don't understand.  It can be exhausting as you try to understand but can't.  You will have to dig deep, and then there will be even more you don't understand. Then, in the end, you will be blessed.

Being a follower of God means letting go of the God you have created, yet never letting go of the God that created you. Be a follower of the big "G" God.

I might also add that I am continually working on my own faith journey.

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Do you have Regrets in Your Life? ~ Mom Blog ~

~ my personal synopsis of a recent sermon~

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”

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Do you have regrets in life?......    real regrets.

A regret is different from a 'redo'.  A redo is something that you probably would choose to do differently next time, but it doesn't entirely affect your life.  Unlike regrets, redos don't typically involve the people close to you either, but regrets hurt you and possibly your family and friends. 

An example of a redo might be something like you would witness on the news or maybe You Tube. You know, one of those wacky videos where someone rode their bike onto ice and then fell through. They were probably hurt a tad but nothing too terribly bad, and they now have a funny story to tell their kids. They later say something like, "If I could do that over, I'm not sure I would make that same choice."  Their actions would be considered pretty dumb but would not be considered a regret in the sense that I am referring to. 

A regret is an action that is probably making you walk around with a negative conscience. Either that, or you are being burdened with an emotional weight that is affecting many areas of your life, such as your marriage, your relationship with your kids, etc.

Of course, with true regret comes some level of remorse, and here is where you have to be careful. You want to have enough regret over your actions so that you will have the power to change, but you don't want to have so much regret that you can't live a healthy happy life. The power to change means you need to start reflecting on your regrets. 

What do you need to do? Redeem what you can and release what you can't. Understand that Grace is greater than regret, and by releasing your regrets to God and asking forgiveness for those sins, you will be able to move on with your life.


Ask yourself, "What in my life is holding me back?  What do I regret?"  Then try this:

Write your regrets on a black piece of paper. It's black because it's only between you and God. Take this paper and turn it over to God.  Ask for forgiveness and then burn the paper. That's right, rid yourself of this burden.

Remember: redeem what you can, release what you can't, and understand that Grace is greater than regret.

Also, if you are interested in reading the kinds of regrets that other people are dealing with, visit the website called Secret Regrets.  You might find it interesting.

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