Hurry, Hurry

I write today in full conviction and reflection of my daily life. I am so often in a hurry. I rush to get breakfast, lunch made, kids dressed, and out the door. I rush to bible study or grocery shopping so I can make it home in time for naps or for preschool pick up. I rush in my daily work to get things done...all for what? To feel better about my home, my business, and to make my husband smile when he walks in the door. Yes he gleams when the house is clean when he gets home. So I attempt every day to do this. I even rush my time in the bible to get onto the next thing for the day...like check my email. I rush through the grocery store to get in and out before a child breaks something or starts screaming on the floor.

But here's the kicker. I'm missing out. I'm missing out on the divine moments God may be trying to give me, or someone else. I'm not fully present. "Be present in your life, right where you are, and dare to look. Look for the little everyday answers to decisions you have to make by being fully present." -Lysa Terkeurst

I'm not fully present for those around me and those most important to me (children)when I'm in a hurry. "Being hurried is and inner condition, a condition of the soul. It means to be so preoccupied with myself and my life that I am unable to be fully present with God, with myself, and with other people. I am unable to occupy this present moment....I cannot live in the kingdom of God with a hurried soul." -John Ortberg

WOW. I'm in a hurry and unable to be present so often that this is so convicting friends. When we look at the story in Mark 5:21-34 where Jesus heals the bleeding woman I am inspired to change by Jesus' example. If I was in an emergency situation like this I don't think I would have stopped.

In this human emergency situation, Jesus stopped. Surrounded by people rushing to make it to the scene to heal a dying young girl, He was fully in the moment, living in the present to stop. To tend to the miracle moment at hand. The bleeding woman, whose life he changed. If he wouldn't have stopped her full transformation and healing wouldn't have taken place. She would have been healed physically because of her faith, but her heart transformed because He stopped. She confessed and was fully healed.


The result of me struggling with being in a hurry is not only missing out on God, but my reaction when I'm interrupted. If I were with Jesus when he was interrupted, I would have been angry and confused why he stopped. Hello?!!! Someone needs you who is DYING!!!!! WEEE WAA WEEE WAA WEE WAAAA alarms sounding in every ounce of my body saying go, don't stop!! I like to stick to my agenda and routine to get in what I was planning to get done. Can you relate to this?? Do you think your inconveniences and interruptions could be a divine invitation? I fully believe hidden treasures come in moments like this.

What moments are you missing out on? A smile or hello to the old lady in the grocery store? 5 minutes of playing Chutes and Ladders with your child? I urge myself and you to be present. In the now. Filled with the spirit to be attentive to these moments.

Father help me. Help me to be in the now. The present moment. Even in the mundane. Thank you ahead of time for the divine appointments you give me, and the people who you can change. Thank you for changing my heart and healing me like the bleeding woman. Help us to confess like she did. Thank you! Amen