Just pray............

I have the list for groceries.  Check.  I have the list for what needs to be done around the house. Check.  I have the list for upcoming events. Check.  Now just to "check"  off each item on these lists  as they are completed.  Organization is a wonderful thing. Getting things done is a wonderful thing.

I must be careful that I don't relegate all of my life actions and doings to lists. What about people?  I have the list for that too.  Make the calls. Check.  Smile and nod. Check.......but is my heart and mind focused on them and the need that is crushing them at this moment. 

During my work years, I had a magnet that had a formula for being successful in people relationships to ensure business success.  After choose your attitude and make their day, the next principle was be there.  Be there.  Lay other things aside and focus your attention to the person in front of you right now and their concern as if the fifty things piled on your desk didn't exist.

Being there is an important part of many things.  This morning I am thinking particularly about prayer.  Am I being there during pray?  Do I just have a list of the various needs?  Missionaries, church family, physical needs, financial needs, family. Is it just a list that I feel like I have to say "check" to each one?  Am I standing in the synagogue and think how good I am by remembering everything on the list?  Is it like a Christmas wish list that I am wishing to be fulfilled? Or, do I humble my self and ask for mercy?

Lord,  help be to be there during pray.  Make my time of prayer a time of adoration to you. Help me commune with you so that by being with you, I am changed.  Help me to live so that every breath is a prayer of  praise and worship to you.  Change me..............

Spinning

If I were to have a word that described my life right now it would be "spinning".  Not that I am dizzy from medication or a physical problem. Or that I am creating some type of material.  Just that a lot of events are happening in our family right now and the effect is .....well.....spinning.   If I have left you with a sense of a bad or negative feeling, please let me say that it is most defiantly not negative in any way. 

You see, many happy things are taking place in the near future. 

1. A piano recital.    Not just your ordinary recital.  This is a graduate recital for a young man receiving his masters degree.  This young man is a dedicated, smart, hard working, talented pianist.  He will be playing some amazing pieces.   And the best part......he is my son.

2. A wedding.   Not just your ordinary wedding.  This wedding is of two special people.   The bride has chosen a beautiful organza covered dress with sparkles all over it.  Plans are being made for the ceremony and the celebration to follow.  What a joy to see God working in their lives even now.  And the best part.......the bride is my daughter.

3.  A move.  Not just your ordinary move.  This move is back to her first love.  After working for a year in a new climate, she is returning her focus on the little guys.  How privileged these little people are and how privileged the bigger guys were for having a little taste of her techniques.  What and outstanding educator.   And the best part.......she is my daughter.

So now you can see that this is a very happy time for me.  So, here I am enjoying life and seeing some miraculous things happening.  And I feel like a spring day in a field of daisies, picking flowers, enjoying the Son shine on my face and spinning.