Talk about a busy week. There’s about a 1% chance that I will be able to unpack anything this week. My wife might have time to get a little bit done, but there us so much going on that it’s basically a wash when it comes to unpacking the house.
My daughter has softball games yesterday and today as well as a tournament this weekend. We have Kidz GiG (our annual VBS) all week in the mornings, I have my regular work and rehearsal tomorrow, and one of my best friends is getting married on Friday (with rehearsal in Thursday). Then we get to the weekend that means the opposite of what most people think of when they think about their weekends.
With all of this going on, I am finding it hard to take a real break, and even harder to make time with God. That’s something I have always struggled with but now that I am trying to make a serious effort to do it, I am having an even more difficult time. Is it wrong for me to hope that it continues to rain so we don’t have to go to the game this evening?
I’ve even been getting up earlier, but only to make it to where I need to be on time. I don’t know if I can physically get up any earlier. I have this desire to say “It’ll be better next week. I can refocus and spend time with God then.” The problem with that is that there’s no telling what will pop up next week to occupy my time.
How do I focus now and develop the discipline to seek out God now so that I don’t start making more excuses next week?
Age old questions, Tony! No “easy” solution.
I struggle with a “quiet time” as well. I’ve recently remembered something I read though that I’ve tried more recently to put into practice. That is… What is one 2-degree change I can make in what I’m doing now that doesn’t seem like much, but can make a difference in the long run? We think that 2 degrees is not much, but a 2 degree shift in a spaceship’s trajectory will cause it to miss it’s target. I know that seems like an extreme example, but sometimes big changes can come with just little shifts in thinking or actions.