You know sometimes we just get “caught up in life” and forget to pray – which, if you have read any of my blog posts, you know that I consider prayer a conversation with God. I love how God allows us to talk to Him all day long and into the night. Sometimes I forget and get busy with life, and it just stops me in my tracks when I realize it. Lately it has done that a lot. You see, I have a new job that takes a lot of my brain power during the day. I travel for work now and I am either on an airplane or in an airport or with a client conducting training at their place of business.
My last job was what I call a “stop-gap measure” until I could get back into the Training Industry and do what I have done for many years. I used to call it a stop gap measure, actually before I realized how wonderful it really was. Well, the work wasn’t so wonderful and the folks, well, they were OK, especially the close friends I made there. I do love some of the folks I met there and still keep in touch with them. I will always be grateful for that. However, there is much more to be grateful for. Read on and let me explain.
Let’s see, I used to work in a Call Center and would sit there 6-8 hours a day at my cubicle, tied to the phone with a headset and type information into the computer all day long. The job didn’t really require a lot of brain power, so I was able to coast sometimes and talk to God and write things down a lot. Things He would tell me throughout the day. Things I would usually write down and post here. I loved my time of conversation with God during each and every day. It really helped me get through 2 years and 3 months of Call Center life. I had never worked in a Call Center and hope I will never have to again. However, if things happen in such a way that I have to again, I do know that my God will have a silver lining behind that particular cloud as well,
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
I came home from my second trip just the other day. It was so good to be back home with my mom and dad and my two four-legged babies, Zuckie and Liesel. Oh my, were they all glad to see me and me them! So, the last couple of days have been a little bit of catching up and telling stories. It was an eventful trip and not necessarily one that I want to experience again. You see, I somehow got a virus on my phone (I didn’t know that could even happen) and I had to do a total reset on my phone! Yep! TOTAL RESET! I learned right quick what it meant to trust the person on the other end of the conversation that said “You should get all of your contacts and photos back. I see them here on iCloud. You should be fine.” Well, the key word there is “should”. I guess it really didn’t turn out too bad, except for the 375 pictures that I did not get back from the 405 that I had. I have regained most of my contacts and well, the pictures were just pictures of my babies and some wondrous pictures from the plane of the majestic Mt. Rainer. I was so very sad when I found out the pics were never downloaded back to my phone. I had some very grand pics. It is a beautiful mountain. It made me think of something someone told me once upon a time. “Don’t worry so much about taking pictures of the beautiful scenery but stop and look and drink in the beauty! Let your mind capture all the beauty around you and let your brain be the camera.” That was told to me just before I took off for Yellowstone National Park many years ago. That is one gorgeous place, too! I did just what my friend told me, too. I can remember things about Yellowstone that still brings a smile to my face and a warm tingle all over my body. That was about 1981 and 1982. A few years ago, and I can still recall some of those times because I did take the time to just drink in God’s beauty that surrounded me from all sides. It was absolutely majestic. as well.
So, with all that said, I think I needed a reminder to Stop, Look and Listen. Stop letting the world run me over and around. Look at all that God has for me in my life and in this beautiful world of His that He has given me to enjoy and listen for and to that “still, small voice” again and regain the peace in my day and life. Knowing all along that God has everything under control and I just have to trust Him to work out what He has worked into my heart and soul in the times at the Call Center. Like Elijah in the following scripture, I want to hear the still, small voice again and know that it is God.
11 Then He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; 12 and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
13 So it was, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”
The time at the Call Center was a time of great inner growth for me and I need to remind myself of that. Yet, look for opportunities for growth in my new life at my new job. God has blessed me greatly with a wonderful job and wonderful folks to work with. I am forever grateful!
The one thing that I do struggle with is time to write my blog posts. When I travel to client sites, I have very long days, usually 12–15-hour days and that leaves little time to write at night like I have done for a year now. I write when I can, but it is never enough, it seems. I store things up though for a time when I do have time to write. So, you may not see as much of me writing, but I do hope that when I do, it will bless you and help you through your days and nights.
May God bless and keep each of you in your busy lives. Just remember, don’t get so caught up in life. Take time to realize that God is there and wants you to keep in contact with Him all the time, daily, hourly, minute by minute, if you need. He is always there, waiting to hear from you. He loves you so much! After all He calls you His beloved.
In Him,
Leah
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