Psalm 144:1, New Living Translation

“Praise the LORD, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.”

Walk Not Run Part Two

My thoughts just moved so quickly:

What do you have to say to other people?

How can you compare to your friends’ blogs?

There are so many blogs out there. Yours will mean nothing.

Like my daughter sprinting down the hall, I allowed my thoughts to run wild, stating claims of my inadequacies as they went. But why? Where were my breaks to stop such a spiral?

Truth time: I failed to turn toward God with my concerns and let the enemy walk right in the front door. The enemy had the keys to the mansion and had opened the garage door for all his buddies. While they had a party in my head, I felt shame, doubt and panic. I knew it was God who asked me to do this, and I still tried to manage and control the situation on my own.

I would love to tell you I pulled myself out of this particular spiral, but I didn’t. A trusted mentor did, and she didn’t even know I was struggling. She provided me with an encouragement to write my life testimony and share it because it has value, not to her, but God’s kingdom. The encouragement I received provided me an opportunity to slow down my thoughts and redirect toward God.

I was able to remind myself that: God did not ask me to write in order to please others.

Followers of Christ are on the same team, and all can glorify Him.

This blog means everything to me because He commissioned it.

With my daughter, I have learned to slow things down and allow her time to get out the wiggles and even play along with her game as it leads to an easier and mess free change. Similarly, with the Father, I am learning to slow myself down, to allow myself time to hear Him and align my heart with His.

You see, this was the key piece I missed on my own. I had taken His command like a race car with bald tires on a rain-soaked roads – too fast. The pace that I am used to, the world’s pace, took over and gave little to no room for God’s counsel.

We have all heard you need to learn to walk before you can run. I would like to propose that as we grow wiser, we can learn to walk with God more often than we run. For in these walks, God has so much goodness to deposit.

(https://justonemoreblog.com/2024/07/06/walk-not-run)