For well over a month now I have walked past my computer wanting to sit down and type out the words God was laying on my heart but when faced with computer issues, flu, pneumonia & adding 1 more to my taxi service because of a wreck the luxury of sitting and writing just wasn’t there, because yes, in this season of life sitting down and writing is a luxury for me.
After a busy day of cleaning, cooking, laundry, running errands, playing taxi, leading bible study, volunteering & many other things I recharge by filling a blank page with the words God is laying on my heart.
Sometimes the blank page is a white computer screen with a black cursor waiting to move along while other times it’s my “Thanks Giving” journal, my Bible study journal or my Prayer journal.
But over the last month the computer screen, and most of my journals have been left blank. I’ve learned that there are seasons of life when my conversations with God become heart conversations meant only for the two of us.
I’ve slipped quiet prayers to God in the middle of the night as I’ve prayed for healing for my family as they battled flu & pneumonia. I’ve rejoiced spontaneously when I saw my husband standing, only bruised, next to his wrecked car. I’ve spoken morning prayers over my kids as I drove them to school. And I’ve whispered words of “Lord, help me patiently wait until you give me the time to write again”.
This time of heart conversations with God has been frustrating at times, as I’ve had to learn to patiently wait on Him. It’s also been hard, as He has revealed some things I’ve had to work on.
When God gave me the word THRIVE for this year I imagined a year of active progress in His plans for my life. But, that was my agenda-not His. I realized that sometimes in order for me to Thrive as God wants me to He has to pull me back to a conversation only between the two of us and unfortunately it took keeping me in the road to take my focus off of my agenda.
It is in those quiet heart conversations where He is teaching me to Thrive.
So my friends, while God is still teaching me to Thrive; my computer issues are fixed, my kids & husband are well and life is opening up again to give me a chance to write.
I hope you will join me next week as I share something with you that I have wanted to give you for a while.
Until then, does God want to have a heart conversation with you? What does He have to do to get your attention?
In His Calm,
