My Pie Season
8/3/09 Seems to me life has it's seasons. Since I'm personally very fond of a good rut, and find change greatly annoying, if not very painful. I find the whole season thing is a great bother for me. So you may see that the changes the Lord allows in our lives aren't always welcomed.
Now I'm at the beginning of a new season. I'm busy packing up my buisness, since I'm closing the current commercial buisness location and moving it into my home. I can see alot the benifits, but I'm still finding it very painful.
The biggest advantages to the move is more time for my family and for my Heavenly Father. I have always desired to make these my greatest priorities but so many things vi for my attention. Now these life changes have allowed a shift in priorities, (a shift that is desperately needed) I also know I want to KEEP these in priority and see I need to base growth, changes, and organization of the new buisness on how they will effect these 2 priorities.
A season long overdue.
During prayer over the last few months, I had created a pie chart, very spiritual of me I know, but my thinking process may be a bit different from other folks at times. Anyways I used the pie chart to see my world broken down into the areas that demand my time and attention. And I've always desired to keep family and my Heavenly Father with the biggest slices of that pie, but it was forever turning out, that in reality that both got very little, Honestly even entertainment (movies and tv and the like) would steal away some of it, when I would find I use them to unwind from the stresses of a hectic day. So it would seem to me that this is my pie season. The season to redistribute the pie and gaurd those slices that have been neglected in the past. Necessity has allowed change, and change is allowing an opportunity to reshape the pie distribution. If I can embrace the change and be vigalant in protecting the pie. I believe this can be a great season.
Now I'm at the beginning of a new season. I'm busy packing up my buisness, since I'm closing the current commercial buisness location and moving it into my home. I can see alot the benifits, but I'm still finding it very painful.
The biggest advantages to the move is more time for my family and for my Heavenly Father. I have always desired to make these my greatest priorities but so many things vi for my attention. Now these life changes have allowed a shift in priorities, (a shift that is desperately needed) I also know I want to KEEP these in priority and see I need to base growth, changes, and organization of the new buisness on how they will effect these 2 priorities.
A season long overdue.
During prayer over the last few months, I had created a pie chart, very spiritual of me I know, but my thinking process may be a bit different from other folks at times. Anyways I used the pie chart to see my world broken down into the areas that demand my time and attention. And I've always desired to keep family and my Heavenly Father with the biggest slices of that pie, but it was forever turning out, that in reality that both got very little, Honestly even entertainment (movies and tv and the like) would steal away some of it, when I would find I use them to unwind from the stresses of a hectic day. So it would seem to me that this is my pie season. The season to redistribute the pie and gaurd those slices that have been neglected in the past. Necessity has allowed change, and change is allowing an opportunity to reshape the pie distribution. If I can embrace the change and be vigalant in protecting the pie. I believe this can be a great season.
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Comment by sherry on August 4, 2009 at 12:16pm -
8/4/09
Setting up a financial budget, or calorie counting, both of these are tools we can use to track where our money is going, and with calorie counting, it tracks just how many calories I'm taking in. I've found a pie chart has been a great in helping me see where my time goes every day. How my day is really divided up. I find my time and attention is so devided up that I end my day feeling like I've accomplished absolutly nothing significant. (Even though that is sometimes true,,,,)) I more often find that I've accomplished alot of little things that have been long forgotten by the days flurry of activities. Lord help me discern how to rightly divide my pie....
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Comment by sherry on September 14, 2009 at 8:51pm
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The beauty of the fall colors. When fall hits it's the mark of the end of summer. and the prelude to winter. Which living in Alaska is short and winters are a bit long, so it's not always a welcomed season. but the beauty of the fall foliage is my favorite season. The golds, browns, reds, rusts, and yellows all splashed on the mountain sides. In this season of change for me I'm not enjoying the mass destruction of the house as we reorganize, but the trip with my son to the zoo. (the first one of the summer I realized) was awsome, attending a women friday afternoonn Bible study was nice and even cooking in the kitchen with a stocked pantry, is a joy. I even turned down an offer for a position with the ASG. Knowing I don't want to start deviding up the pie into smaller and smaller pieces as I add more and more activities. I'm trusting the Lord to give me direction as I add activities and take opportunities to do fun, good, and needed things. because I can get so 'over involved in, many, many, fun, good, and needed things. But I can't meet every need, can't do everything that's good and fun. I've got to let the Lord help me. He is Faithful!!!!
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