5 Minutes of Crazy

So, I haven't been able to blog in almost two months. What's going on? Well, life happens. As Christians we have this mindset that we should be able to juggle a thousand tasks at a time and never let anything fall to the wayside. It is this mindset that leads to burnout and disappointment in the ministry.

Realistically, we should listen more to the what God says than worry about how perfect our lives look. Jesus tells us that there is enough for us to deal with today (Matt 6:34). He was reminding us to not worry so much. It is very difficult for us as Christians to allow for the reality that priorities can and often do shift in our lives. We think that we are somehow making a mistake by setting something we always were responsible for aside and picking up something that seems to be a temporary situation.

That's how Jesus lived. Most of the time, Jesus went with whatever situation sprang up in front of him. When he was on the way to heal Jairus' daughter, he didn't ignore the woman who had the hemorrage for 12 years. Instead, he shifted priorities and blessed her. Then, when he finished that new priority, he continued on to his work.

This is my life... much to my annoyance. Often times, I am faced with shifting priorities and it frustrates me that I cannot keep working on the things that I am passionate about. I love getting on here and blogging about practical Christianity. I hope for the day when one of my readers comes back to me and mentions how something I wrote helped them get through a situation in their own life. But, I have to face facts that as a husband and father of four, part time grad student, therapist, bus driver, fill-in preacher, and person with Asperger's, I cannot keep it all going all the time. My hardest lesson in this time of my life is learning to change gears until I can get back to doing what I feel God wants me to.

For those of you going through trials of craziness, or business, hang on to Him. Remember, it's ok to set something aside to deal with the momentary issue. If God wants you to do something, He will let you get back to it. Don't let distractions worry you, because they are normal, and they are not failures. They are, however, reminders that we live on God's time, and not our own.

Blessings,

Ryan