One of my fears is writing this article!

I am processing through a message series on fear.  One of my fears is writing this article. I must say thank you for your kind words and encouragement. Joe Marchese speaking to another (while I was listening) characterized my article by saying, “you know what to expect from Jeff and Darren but you never know what this guy is going to say.” Joe you are so right more so than you know because I don’t know what I’m going to say most times. That is my fear realized.

Writing is hard for me. It takes work and work to get thoughts on paper. Even then I go back and correct this sentence and as you have seen or should have corrected that sentence. Thanks for bearing with me. Thank the Lord for spell check. It is too bad it doesn’t fix wrong words spelled right. That’s the work part. My fear is that I will waste your time and mine writing something that is a platitude.. It sounds good and may be a mile wide but only a fraction of an inch deep. That would be a waste and there is plenty of that kind of writing. So, what I’m left with is the reality of living in my skin week in and week out. So, today I sit in a McDonald’s writing from my skin.

This week has been unusual as I have been on hyper-drive multitasking each day. What I mean is maybe best shown. Tuesday I was at home working on Crossroads Newsletter you can sign up at www.crossroadschurcheff.org as I was cleaning the kitchen, making sure Geoff stayed on track to complete a backlog of work on a deadline so that he has the possibility of graduating high school in May, making some preps for dinner (Barbara is staying with my Mom and Dad following Mom’s shoulder replacement), taking the dog out oh and running my bus route in the morning and evening. I think there is something I missed. Now before you stop reading, I am not used to all of that at the same time so give me a break ladies. In the middle of that I thought how does anything get done?

My tendency is to be apprehensive (another word for fear) about all that I have to do soon follows overwhelmed with a close proximity of defeat. Know that? This week, on that day it was getting done in order and on time. I had to stay at it. I thought to thank God for his schedule and time to complete the tasks at hand. To thank him for the wisdom to do what was most necessary and the strength to keep up.

Some believe God has set everything in motion but it’s now “hands off.” Steven Hawking is one such thinker. I used to think that way (scripture has always said differently but I thought I knew better) but living in my skin says differently. My experience says God is aware and active in the tasks of my every-day-living my comings and goings AND my short comings and goings on-and-on-and-on.

 So, there it is another article based on living in my skin because that’s all I got. Where and when I trust God in all things that’s all I/WE need.

Isn’t it?

In HIS Service and Yours

BroG