Anybody feel like you need to grab a butter knife and start carving tally marks into your baseboards? ๐คช By the way, this emoji is now in my โfrequently usedโ section on my keyboard. Itโs working itโs way up to the number one position as the tallies rack up... and weโre only a few days into our shelter-in-place!
My mind is going back to a very significant message from a counselor during a very significant time of my life. I was overwhelmed. I was defeated. I was crushed. I couldnโt handle the idea of tomorrow. And she shared this simple statement.
๐๐พ๐ผ๐ฝ ๐ญ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ท๐ฎ๐๐ฝ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฝ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ.
She helped me hone in on the single step in front of me rather than on the big, crushing whole. My next right thing turned into a sweet morning that unfolded into a complete and good day. These days combined into chunks of time I settled into with peace that blended into weeks and then months. And those months became years that are now memories of experiencing the hand of God in a way I never had before. Gratefulness paints the theme for these memories of simply choosing the next right step with the Lordโs grace covering.
So Iโm sharing this little graphic I created. I canโt handle an hour by hour schedule. ๐คช Here it is again! Our family, work, and lives donโt fit that.
๐๐พ๐ฝ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ท ๐ญ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ท๐ฎ.
I can focus on ministering to one person.
I can select one task to accomplish thatโs been weighing on me.
I can write one verse on a card and meditate on its truth throughout the day.
Sister, we donโt have to take on a public role of virus-fighting and broadcast it to the world in order to make a difference right now. We can make a difference in the one home, one life, one heart we have been given today.
Letโs simply do the next right thing.
Oh Father, thank you for being the God of one. You have extended us this single good day. Help us to simply sit under your hand of refuge and blessings and enjoy the ones you have given us in these moments. Amen.
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TIMELESS TRUTH:
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.ย - Psalm 73:28