"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11.28-30.
For the last few weeks i've felt like i've been going through a spiritual valley. Every day has been a struggle, struggling for joy, struggling for grace, struggling for peace. Waking up in the morning and reading my bible and almost falling asleep, trying to focus and not being able to.
But on Tuesday night i went to the BIG bible study. I went into the other room to pray before we began and as i sat there pleading with God to be my strength and my provider and everything else i realized that, WHOA, hasn't He already said that He IS? When i gave my life to Jesus all those years ago He became my peace. He became my provider. He became my strength. That reminder was a huge encouragement to me! Psalm 23 says "Even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me" (Verse 4a).
So even though i feel weak and downtrodden (love that word!) i know that that's when God is strongest in me, and it is a pleasure to just rest in His presence and be renewed!
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Phase ?
Listening To: Phil Driscoll - I Exalt Thee
I was thinking this morning how amazing it would be if a body could store up sleep, "all-nighter? no prob! i have 13 hours of banked sleep!"
Too bad it doesn't work that way.
However, the last little while was really been great sleep-wise. I've shifted myself down to 4 days of work a week, i now have 2 days off in the middle, totally breaks my work week up into manageable sections (not that i couldn't manage it before of course...). But i've been sleeping a lot more than i thought possible, the first night i catch up on lost sleep and the second night i just sleep because i can. Awesome!
I changed my hours for a number of reasons. The first being that i really felt like i was taking my job far too seriously (especially easy to when you work in the family business), just the thought of going to work in the morning was enough to send my mind into over-drive (thinking about the messy back and how i was going to deal with it, and the stressfulness of having a dad for a boss and a brother as a manager). Also, i've been wanting to make a shift toward being at home more, having more time to do stuff around the house, baking/canning/cooking/cleaning/etc. Stuff that i feel is more important for me to be doing than having a full-time job.
Not to mention i can spend more time up in Summerland and Kelowna with the family contingent up there....:) The first week my new hours were implemented my lovely little niece Elise Marie Davies was born to Yvonne and Sam. i woke up that morning with a text from my co-aunty Rebekah B saying that Yvonne was in labour. Let me tell you, i was gone within half an hour! I had the privilege of holding Elise when she was just a couple of hours old (something that i missed with Jonas, i didn't even see him until he was 2 months old!) and then staying with Yvonne for a couple of days to help out where i could. What fun!
Today, being a Thursday, is the last day of my weekend. I've booked myself in for a haircut, i have library books to return, a room to vacuum, some Sufyan Stevens tickets to pick up tonight, and a brand new camera lens to play with. i did all my laundry and cookie baking yesterday, enjoyed the sunshine immensely (it is raining today), so thats basically all i have to do today. Maybe i'll research the dutch language a bit.
I was thinking this morning how amazing it would be if a body could store up sleep, "all-nighter? no prob! i have 13 hours of banked sleep!"
Too bad it doesn't work that way.
However, the last little while was really been great sleep-wise. I've shifted myself down to 4 days of work a week, i now have 2 days off in the middle, totally breaks my work week up into manageable sections (not that i couldn't manage it before of course...). But i've been sleeping a lot more than i thought possible, the first night i catch up on lost sleep and the second night i just sleep because i can. Awesome!
I changed my hours for a number of reasons. The first being that i really felt like i was taking my job far too seriously (especially easy to when you work in the family business), just the thought of going to work in the morning was enough to send my mind into over-drive (thinking about the messy back and how i was going to deal with it, and the stressfulness of having a dad for a boss and a brother as a manager). Also, i've been wanting to make a shift toward being at home more, having more time to do stuff around the house, baking/canning/cooking/cleaning/etc. Stuff that i feel is more important for me to be doing than having a full-time job.
Not to mention i can spend more time up in Summerland and Kelowna with the family contingent up there....:) The first week my new hours were implemented my lovely little niece Elise Marie Davies was born to Yvonne and Sam. i woke up that morning with a text from my co-aunty Rebekah B saying that Yvonne was in labour. Let me tell you, i was gone within half an hour! I had the privilege of holding Elise when she was just a couple of hours old (something that i missed with Jonas, i didn't even see him until he was 2 months old!) and then staying with Yvonne for a couple of days to help out where i could. What fun!
Today, being a Thursday, is the last day of my weekend. I've booked myself in for a haircut, i have library books to return, a room to vacuum, some Sufyan Stevens tickets to pick up tonight, and a brand new camera lens to play with. i did all my laundry and cookie baking yesterday, enjoyed the sunshine immensely (it is raining today), so thats basically all i have to do today. Maybe i'll research the dutch language a bit.
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