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"Giving it to God"

Posted May 28, 2009 By Andrea and has no comments yet.

How often are we told to do this?

Out of those many times, how often do we actually follow through?

I am having a difficult time with this lately. As the school year ends I am left without a job and I have been searching for weeks going on months. I know so many others feel this same way, but of course I feel that the odds are stacked against me because I am pregnant and already feel I gave up a current career for the school. I know this isn’t true, I would not have wanted to be anywhere else besides having a chance to say goodbye to those kids, but somewhere it seems that Satan is trying to cast a shade on the entire situation.

I very much want to give the situation to God. But what does that mean? I apply for any and everything? I try to return to Starbucks (the man of coffee)? I wait until my summer semester of classes is over to find a better schedule? Whatever it means, I pray that I will be lead in the right direction. Right now I seem to be at a loss. “Giving it to God” is not so easy as it sounds.

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Posted January 8, 2009 By Andrea and has no comments yet.

The day in and day out, the pressure, the bills, the laundry…. I think all of us have something that can get in the way of spending time with God. It is EXTREMELY easy for me to get busy and then lazy. It is a cycle I create. I either want to do everything at once, or nothing at all.

To be honest, I have not been working on it. But admitting it is the first step right? I don’t know how. Where is balance? Where is time with others and not trying to make the next task disappear….to soon be replaced by another one. Can it exist as long as we are doing the “normal” way of life?

How do you find time for God? Can you read the Bible without feeling uneasy about something? This happens to me a lot. I think that I am not as intelligent as I would like to think I am. It’s like “I love this part!” and then- “What the heck does that mean?!?!”

Today I am going out for a cup of coffee with a friend after work. Starbucks coffee with a pump of Cinnamon Dulce. MMmmm, I can taste it. I know they are corporate giants but something just makes me keep going back (well that and the best locally owned coffee shop is like 20 minutes away from where I work…Starbucks is 2). After that I will go home and I might think about folding the laundry. But maybe first I will spend a little time with God. Maybe I will baffle myself with some scripture and then ask God to help me out. There’s a first step after admittance, correct?