Psalm 61
From the end of the earth I call to you,
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I
This is a cry I so often need in my life but too often don't cry out. It is a tightrope walk between wanting to rely on God and wanting to rely on myself, my talents, my gifts, my abilities. I have heard it said that 'God only helps those who help themselves' and while I don't believe it works that way I sure do live like I do sometimes.
For the past few years I have written, for lack of a better term, a mantra for the new year on my big white board in my home office. For 2015 it was to be better. For 2016 it was to love more. Now at the dawn of 2017 it is to do more and less. I want 2017 to be a year where I do more things that are beneficial to me, my family, my job, my church, my God and do less things that take away the time I have to do just that.
That seems like a good goal, but I wonder if I'm not simply falling into the same trap all over again of thinking that I need to do x,y or z. I don't know, but it's up on the board so we'll see how it goes, I've never edited or discarded one yet, but maybe I will this year.
No questions today, but I will end with a short prayer.
As this new year begins I pray that we all will find the right balance in our lives. Balance between doing and being. Balance between love and life. Balance between faith and doubt. Balance between all the things that we want to happen and all the things that will happen. That we would find a balance not through any might of our own but rather through God.
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