I've Been BUSY!!!

I know, I know! It has been much too long since I last posted. Really it was not intentional. I have to admit that life got the best of me. Have you ever seen the acronym B U S Y??? Well it stands for Being Under Satan's Yoke. That is exactly where I felt like I have been for the last few months. So many things have happened in my life, the lives of my family and the lives of my church family that I have allowed those "things" to overtake me. I have been BUSY!!

I could sit here and list all those "things" that have happened, but I really do believe if I did that I would not be giving honor or glory to my Lord. So I won't. I refuse to be BUSY anymore. I don't want to continue focusing on the negative like I have been for way too long. I want to focus on the positive. So here goes.....

I am blessed!! I have been blessed!! I will continue being blessed!! God has given to me a wonderful husband, two amazing sons, a sweet church fellowship to be a part of and an amazing group of friends who I all too often take for granted. Any one person could list those same things. Each of us has been blessed with people who are very important and make an impact on our lives.

But here is where I really want to focus on the positive. I have even been blessed by the people who have caused me pain and suffering. It sounds crazy doesn't it? Well it's not! Those people where placed in my life at just the right time. Sometimes I recognized that, other times, more than I would like to admit, I didn't. Each of them contributed something to make me draw closer to my Lord. Yep, each and every one of the people who I have believed on occasion has robbed me of my time and energy has shown me in some small or even large way how some very unattractive rough edges needed to be smoothed off my exterior to conform me into the image of Christ.

I will tell you that it has not been an enjoyable experience. At times it has been painful, downright excruciating. Yet the outcome has always been the same. When will I learn? When will I completely give up my own personal agenda and realize I can't do things as well as God can? Being a "fixer" it's not easy to say that. And that is how I get so caught up into being BUSY! These people come into my life and I want to "fix" them. I can't!! That's not my job. But our enemy knows that. He knows that I want to fix them and does his best to influence me in any way he can to just be BUSY.

I have started really looking at things in my life, the daily, weekly and even monthly things I do and evaluating them and the impact they have on my family, my church family, my friends and myself. I am weighing them, I guess you would say on an eternal scale. How important are the things I am doing when it comes to eternity? Or are the things I am doing just keeping me BUSY? You see the busier I get the less I do for the Lord. That's not how I want to live my life nor account for my life. I want to be able to stand before Christ some day and know that I wasn't just BUSY. I want to be able to stand before Him and know that things I did had an impact somehow, somewhere and on someone for His honor and His glory.

I hope you too will join me in being less BUSY and more occupied with the things of the Lord.