It's the first week back of term, and my first week back of normal working hours. Last week our church had a huge outreach event, where all week long I was at work setting up for this (I even had a work experience student with me!).
I work 2 days a week- usually one day is dedicated to planning our Sunday kids programs during the church service, and one day to planning our Friday Kids Club (with other things interspersed through these two days- e.g. meeting with children, running small discipleship groups, staff meetings, leaders meetings, etc).
By some miracle, this week I have run out of things to do. I find myself sitting at my desk wondering what I could possibly do with the next 2 hours before I am meeting with a child.
My first thought is 'I should find something to do, maybe a boring admin job to fill my time'. However this is not what God wanted! He showed me that most of the time I focus on what I can 'do' instead of who I can 'be'. How am I ever going to learn anything new, or have new revelations about anything if all of my time is spent on 'doing'. Sometimes it is necessary to simply 'be' and go back to reading Scripture and spending time with God to see what it is He wants me to do, and who he wants me to be. Most of the time I find that when I do this, I discover where God is leading me by 'being' close to him.
If only I spent all of my time 'being' rather than 'doing', I would probably get a lot more meaningful things done!
I work 2 days a week- usually one day is dedicated to planning our Sunday kids programs during the church service, and one day to planning our Friday Kids Club (with other things interspersed through these two days- e.g. meeting with children, running small discipleship groups, staff meetings, leaders meetings, etc).
By some miracle, this week I have run out of things to do. I find myself sitting at my desk wondering what I could possibly do with the next 2 hours before I am meeting with a child.
My first thought is 'I should find something to do, maybe a boring admin job to fill my time'. However this is not what God wanted! He showed me that most of the time I focus on what I can 'do' instead of who I can 'be'. How am I ever going to learn anything new, or have new revelations about anything if all of my time is spent on 'doing'. Sometimes it is necessary to simply 'be' and go back to reading Scripture and spending time with God to see what it is He wants me to do, and who he wants me to be. Most of the time I find that when I do this, I discover where God is leading me by 'being' close to him.
If only I spent all of my time 'being' rather than 'doing', I would probably get a lot more meaningful things done!
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