Apologies and Peace

First off, I would like to apologize to all of you who are reading this. I have gotten off track with my changed purposeful activities that I made public to you, one of which is two days of blogging a week. One devoted to God's purposes and general items that are going on in the world around me, as well as another chapter about my Grandfather. There are no really good excuses, as I have been at work about as much as I've been working from home the past few weeks. So, I ask your forgiveness and start again.

Sometimes I get so caught up in what I have to do to stay afloat, that I forget about the other purposes God has for me and how to spend time getting to know Him more. I have never been diligent about spending time with Him, so much so, that I often wonder how much closer I could be to Him if I had just devoted the time HE deserved. Then I remember that God always has a way of making His will happen despite our reluctance and lack of due diligence.

We spend our time in relentless state of trying to make things balance, that ultimately things fall off that we don't ever intend to have do so. These things we all try to balance: family, relationships, friends, work, church, service, etc are all critical components of God's purposes in our lives with Him at the head of them of course.

I often get caught up in the big picture, what I need to do to make things happen in my life. It's so hard to take the "I" out of that sentence. The details are often superfluous to me as I work my way to the big picture- there's that "I" again. While I often work in generalities and grandious-ness, God is working in the details, as I have seen evidenced in my life.

Now, I know I speak often of enjoying the journey, well, it gets harder the longer the journey is and the less you know what steps to take. All we can do is lean in, lean in to God. The peace that comes with that, well, it makes the journey a little more bearable. It makes our "trust with out borders", as my favorite Hillsong United song says, the cornerstone of what God is doing in our lives. Doing it day to day, in the details, I only hope that my attempt to do that are evidenced in my words and actions that I share with you. My prayers is that you all know the peace of trusting without borders, which I finally understand, but have to consistently work at doing.

Look for another post next week in my other blog, the one for my grandfather. As always, I am humbled that you chose to read along this journey. If you can be in prayer for each day being a day to have the strength and resolve to trust without borders, it would be greatly appreciated.