Good evening everyone, I am still going post Sundays Blog now but realized with the help of the devotional below that my thoughts were definitely getting in the way. I felt the need to post this devotional in the event it may help one person reading this . Sundays Blog followed by a brief blog today Monday will be posted but the writing for both days can be found below .
Pasted from Devotional:
Imagine you’re standing on a hill by yourself. A stream trickles beside you while birds chirp happily above you. The sun beats down on your face while a gentle breeze blows by. Everything looks calm and quiet—but your mind is racing through a list of tasks you’ve left undone, problems you can’t solve, and brokenness you can’t fix. Although you’re in a tranquil place, the sound of your own thoughts is keeping you from enjoying what’s happening around you.
What would it take for you to pause, silence the noise, and be still?
Through stillness, we learn to pay attention to what God is doing in us and around us. But stillness is both active and passive. It involves allowing God to refocus our vision and tune our ears to His voice while we give Him the noise inside us. It requires surrendering our worries, concerns, and problems to God while allowing Him to refocus our hearts on Him.
As we practice this spiritual habit, we become more equipped to give God glory for His power at work in our lives because we start to notice what God has already been doing in our lives.
Action Step: Get away for a few hours this week and practice giving God whatever concerns come to mind. It’s okay if you have to do this repeatedly for a while. Just use this time to silence the noise inside you and get into the habit of making space to hear God’s voice.
Wow, this was a great message for me last night to truly digest when i flew through it . But I didn’t why? As I just figured out I was to preoccupied with my thoughts last night that carried into today and amplified to the point I came home from work early today. I do realize now after going through the devotional again and writing this (which I will do once more time tonight) that I did work extended hours recently which has definitely put me into my thoughts more. I did speak up at work today and said I realized XYZ still needs to be done but the last four days which should have all been 10-12’s hour shifts have all turned into at least 16 hour days and I was exhausted . I did call for a break today , which would not have not happened before. We have to
Realize we are all human and need to take time for ourselves and when we don’t things get compromised even if we don’t see it at the time including but not limited to increase stress, Increased Thoughts, Irritability, Anger, Depression, Sadness, fatigue, impairment of body functions and cognitive abilities, self destructive behaviors, etc. What put me here ? Me ! thank you needed this . Love you all .
Love yourself and others . Take time for the PAUSE.
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Daily Prayer’s
God, thank You for loving me enough to bear all my sins- past, present and future- and die for me. Your love and grace is more extraordinary than I can even fathom. Show me how to love others and share the transformative power of Your love. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
God, thank You for uniquely creating me to serve You. I want to use the gifts You’ve given me to bless You and Your people. I want to be a faithful manager of all that You’ve entrusted to me. So please show me how to use my talents to serve others and glorify Your holy name.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.