Shalom.

Take a peek inside my world and most days it is filled with a dizzying amount of activities.  I am constantly on the move.  Wife, mother of 4, two jobs, a house to keep clean (hahaha that right there is funny), friends and family that I adore spending time with, volunteering at school, cheering on my children at sporting events, and somewhere in there making time to sleep.  Did I mention half of my family lives 280 miles away???  Really my life is no different than most of yours.  Well except the family living across the state part (which in case you were wondering I wouldn’t recommend to most people). I am sure at the end of the day you never feel like you got enough done.  I am sure that you have a pile of laundry to be done (if not please send your fairy to my house,  I will put her to work).  I know that just when you feel like you can sit still for a moment one of the kids needs help with their homework or the dogs need fed or dinner needs cooked.  The list goes on and on.  I was talking to my husband the other day and I told him that I felt like I was juggling spinning plates and felt like at any moment they were all going to just drop.  MAD CRAZY CHAOS.  In his typical calm, wisdom infused fashion he tells me “Let God spin them.  He won’t drop them.”  Ok now at first I have to admit I was like…..seriously?  Please tell me what that looks like to hand all your spinning plates over to God.  Because the children and the pets and the schooling and the dishes and the laundry don’t just GO AWAY.  I can trust God with the big problems.  You know that ones that have an end in sight.  The storms that actually pass.  But what about the day in and day out stuff?  Can I trust Him with my chaos?  If you listen, even in the midst of your busy day you can hear His voice.  Maybe it’s directions, maybe it’s a whispered promise, maybe it is an impression on your heart.  Tonite as I was leaving work I felt like I was supposed to go for a drive.   So I started driving up to the Monument.  I could see rain falling in different spots all over the valley.  Come walk with Me.  Uggghhh, really God my feet hurt from standing on hard tile all day and you want me to walk?  Ok, ok.  As I start to walk I see the sun starting to set casting a beautiful pink color over the Bookcliffs and hitting the falling rain.  Everything was perfectly right.  But what had changed?  Still had the responsibilities I had before, but I had listened to what God told me to do in the moment.  I had given him the spinning plates.  After all, He won’t drop them.  While standing there taking in the beauty I watched car after car driving away from the beautiful sight.  They had not a clue of the beauty that was being painted at that very moment.  They were driving a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction.  I wanted to yell “stop, turn around, you are missing it.” So please take a moment to just breathe in the presence of God and let His peace wash over you.  Look for the beauty that He is painting for you.  Shalom.