WOW! Yesterday was a very fast pace day. I had a few meetings with my website clients and then I had to work on my own website and articles. I was drained. After all of my meetings I wanted to start working on my novel and my articles, but I got overwhelmed with the websites I am working on that I couldn't think striaght. It was like I couldn't get my mind to slow down. I wanted to focus on just one thing and do as much as I could on that one thing and then go to the next thing that was on my list. I just couldn't do it. Around 8pm, I just got in the bed. I felt like i had bitten off more than I could chew. While i was laying there I started thinking about making it and how others made it. I started thinking about those that had none of what I have and made it happen. I'm talking about the Tyler Perry's, Oprah Winfrey's, Harriet Tubman's. All of these people faced the dame issues I'm facing and the only way they made it was by not letting anything stop them.
I immediately got up after all this thinking and jumped in the shower. I just stood there for about 30 minutes and cleared my mind. When my mind was clear, I got out and got on the computer. I starting working on a website and got a good portion of it done. After that, I begin to write and I wrote until I started falling asleep. Now to tell you the truth, when I got in the bed, I couldn't sleep and I just tossed and turned pretty much all night. But I didn't let that stop me this morning either. I knew that I needed to relax so I took myself to breakfast and Egg & I. I sat there and ate peacefully. After that I went to Barnes and Nobles and I am now posting to this blog.
Sometimes things pile up and you feel as if you can't take it, but you have to remember to relax, gather your thoughts and let God take care of what you can't. You have to just do what you can. If you keep pushing, you will find yourself being pushed, not by you, but by God. Just like right now! I am being pushed by God, because if it were up to me, I would still be in the bed telling myself I need to rest because I didn't get any sleep last night. I have every excuse to be at home in the bed right now. I am on vacation. I haven't had any sleep. I have been working very hard on these websites...NO! I refuse to be defeated. I refuse to stand still and let life pass me by. Instead, I am going to get on the same ride as life and ride it out until I can't ride anymore. What are you going to do? Are you going to get on the ride with life, or just let it pass you by?
-K.J Swint
Interesting. I'm happy you do take breaks and try to get rest. Often time, I know I'm anxious about this or that. I often worry and can't sleep. Just like you, I have ideas and often find myself tossing and turning in bed. Maybe we can both use those time of anxiety and unrest to go to God in prayer and seek rest. We all need rest. I remember a sermon I recently heard about how David sleep while being pursued by thousand. He sleep so we should be able to do the same. Yes, we have goals, worries, and various things we wish to accomplish, but just we all need rest. Let us both try to find our rest.
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