There’s a McDonald’s ad currently doing the rounds that shows a new guy being busily taken on a mind-blowing information overload sort of induction. On his whirlwind tour of his new workplace he sees another poor mug being given a similar routine. Finally when he has a minute to himself he elects to nip off to the McD’s to chill out and across from him he sees the the other poor mug who evidently thought it would be best to take the same choice.
I haven’t been to McDonald’s since.
But seriously, sometimes I get so caught up in the maelstrom that is life. (Beautiful word that isn’t it? ‘Maelstrom’. Try it out on all your friends.) I get caught up with the apparently pressing demands made on me. In getting caught up with all that I failed to remind myself of what God required of me. I remain convinced that God is not one to rush in and make dictates and force things on me.
My vision of Him is often of one seated in an armchair in the living room, settled in with a cup of His favourite beverage next to Him. When He speaks it is full of wisdom and compassion. Yet He doesn’t force it on. Should I choose not to remain in the living room. Should I feel the need to busy myself tidying up the bedroom, cleaning the kitchen, sorting out the garage and maintaining the bathroom in a never ending cycle, I’ll often pass Him in the armchair with a look of sadness in His eyes, but He won’t stop me.
When I start to flag and discover that however hard I work the more the work still needs to be done, then I see the need for a break and where better to take it than in the settee across from the familiar armchair. When I choose to do that and choose to listen and take on board the calming words of He who sits in the armchair,
I begin to recognise that it pays to spend more time sorting my head out and clearing it out of all the mess of supposed requirements and be reminded again of what He calls me to do. for that which He calls me to do, He enables me to do. That which He enables me to do He gives me the peace to do. That which He gives me the peace to do He always ensures is full of peace because His presence remains there. Almost as if the armchair is situated right in the situation. Whereas when I’m rushing from room to room – family stuff, work stuff, other stuff – the armchair is missing.
No wonder it does my head in.
So in the light of those circumstances, this blog is to inform you that I’ll be easing up on the blogging for a while. I desperately need to take that rest on the settee again. I almost need to reset myself completely again.
The MTP series for this month as you’ll note will be on the remix mode which essentially means some of the posts I’ve done previously will be reposted on here over the month. Should I muster the energy there might be some fresh blogs. Likewise the Other Place will see sparse blogging for the time being. I just need your prayers for this particular season. You should know it takes much for me to have to ease off the blogging, but there’s no point in flogging the blogging if me noggin is wrong.
All the best until the return.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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