#FreshVision

This week I'm tired.  Labor Day weekend was filled with running for the basketball team's food booth, the parade and a football game and time with family... but not much rest.  And then the work week has been super hectic as well, and I'm tired. 

And that seems to be a pretty frequent story. 

Today I was washing my hands and as I stood at the sink a list of all that I had to do was running through my mind.  Sometimes just the list becomes exhausting, and because I know that you can probably relate, you know I'm not being a whiner.  As I was thinking of my to do list, I heard that still small voice again. 

You know the one.  The one sometimes you question.  The one sometimes you try to push away. 

And it said, "Why is it so easy for you to say yes to everyone else, but not to God?"

Umm... Hello. 

But I do.  I tend to say yes first, and then beat myself up about doing so. 

Say yes to work, and to meetings, and to extra time and extra things... and I only have 24 hours in a day, right?

And when I say  yes to all of those other things, all those time-consuming things, all these things that are good but may not be God...

it crowds Him out. 

So this morning, as this thought came to my mind, I thought about our lessons this week.  About having fresh passion and determining my purpose and pursuing it, pursuing what I am meant for. 

And I'm not ashamed to admit that maybe I don't have it figured out yet. 
But He does. 

He knows His plans for me, and He knows what I was preordained to do, before I was created... before the world was created. 

If you're not sure of your purpose, either, don't lose heart, because He knew the same for you.  He knows...

So tomorrow is another day.  I'll start this thing yet again, clearing out my heart and my head and finding some white space in my day.  I'll stay in His Word and keep on looking to Him... and dust myself off when I fall. 

#FreshVision. Focusing on Him... and He is enough.