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Gathering, how to begin each day.


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Gathering…Waiting
 by Laurie Pace  

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2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Waiting.  Waiting. Waiting.  Do you ever feel like you spend a lot of time waiting on something or someone? 

When we are caught up in life gathering, busily lining the ducks up in a row, we stop when we realize a few ducks got away…while we were busy putting the first group of Quackers  in place.  (almost makes me tired and stressed typing this…) Will the first group you lined up ‘stay’ there? Or, did they disappear when you turned around to get the others? 

We are all quite the busy bodies…either online, which is not healthy. Or doing our own ‘Thing’ each day.  Throughout  life our personal patterns shift, our friends may shift closer to us, or may move away.  Our job changes, we may move to a new state, a new job, a new church…change is to be expected. 

There are those mornings you want to “begin again”.  I always start out with purpose and a plan…but find myself 8 hours later behind and trying to catch up.  It is not just a focus issue, but a lack of focus. (has to be this right arm not working well!)

What are yours first thoughts as you awaken from the night? I usually am having a conversation in my head, looking at the clock, and giving thanks for what rest I received. Sometimes I am debating returning to sleep if it is too early.  This past year after my Mom died, I found myself rising between 4:30 and 5 a.m. I have several apps on the iPad for daily reading, and my Bible next to me for continued reading.  If time allows, I journal and try to write down my thoughts for use in my blog. Every morning I am convicted deeper in my faith.  This is how I began anew with my deepening journey with Jesus.

Important for me each day, is to realize God working through me in my walk and my voice, in my thoughts and continued prayers, and in my abiding and listening. It is not in my conversations with myself…but it is with my conversations with Him.

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Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.  



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