Breathing Light
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“If you don’t give yourself
room to breathe, you won’t give God room to move.”
~Randy Alcorn
~Randy Alcorn
As the world and sky begin to wake…there is my coffee
with God and time to exhale the chaos of a day to come. This particular day, we
are having our windows replaced…ALL OF THEM.
So all day we will have six men tearing out the old and putting in the
new.
For whatever reason, this brings a lot of tension and
anxiety to me. I discovered throughout the day that I did not handle this new
adventure very well and I know this because my loving husband confirmed it. I’m
not a perfectionist by any means but I do have MY way of doing things. *not
that I have ever taken windows out before but I’m thinking there is a neater
way involved.
When all the windows were torn out - everything was
exposed. They had taken control of my home and were doing things I did not
like. Dust and wood pieces were flying everywhere. Insulation was all over the
place – it was getting worse by the second.
But isn’t that like change? It
gets worse before it gets better.
As the tearing and popping noises increased…my breathing
began to become shallow and I started rubbing the back of my neck. My body temperature went up about 5 degrees
and I headed to the basement where the kids were.
I had no idea that this would bother me as much as it did
but it only got worse when I heard the toilet flush. I guess I didn’t think that they would be
using the KIDS bathroom. It’s ok…just breathe. I can use bleach. *Probably not
what Jesus would have thought?
But Jesus doesn’t ask me to be perfect. He knew that
strange men in my children’s bathroom would freak me out a bit. He did ask me;
however, to give up my life to Him. And because I knew my feelings and thoughts
were not what He would have thought…I felt bad and said, “Ok you are
right…everyone has to pee. For today,
they can use the bathroom and thank you for bleach.”
My new windows are clean, shiny and beautiful. They will
get dirty and smudged but I can wipe that away…just like Jesus wipes away my
yuck.
“For
from His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.” ~John 1:16
Today, let's practice taking deep breaths...through the
nose…inhale to the count of 5…hold for 3 seconds…and exhale to the count of
7. Let's ask for His peace and say His
name during these deep breaths. Chasing and breathing in The Light today.
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