This One Will Be Called “Unfinished”
Ever have a day like this?
You wake up. It’s a good morning, and… it’s your day off! You start off well with prayer, giving thanks, but before you ask God for His direction, you’re tempted to peek at the schedule on your phone. Relieved you have nothing pressing to do today, you anticipate checking off several tasks on your personal to-do list. Conversation with the Creator is put on hold.
Jumping up to make your bed, you decide to switch up the bed linen. You’ve got all of it changed except for the pillowcases, but then you spot the basket of laundry that needs folding. Halfway through the pile, you snag a fingernail and must look for an emery board. Of course, you can’t file just one nail, but when switching to the other hand, your bladder sends an urgent request for relief. Now that you’re in the bathroom, might as well take a good soak, so you run the water, but before you get in, thirst sends you to the kitchen. Swallowing some water from the fridge, your stomach says, “A little breakfast would be nice” so you put together a spread. However, an important phone call requires you to leave the plate on the counter and access information on your computer. Unfortunately, you’re not able to locate what you need and will have to call the person back later, but when you hang up, you wonder if what you were looking for is in your email. At the slew of correspondence in your inbox demanding your response, you declare, “If I focus, it’ll only take me a few minutes.”
Six hours later, your eyes are weary from being sidetracked by the social media maze you somehow got caught in, and you still haven’t eaten or taken a bath. However, all you really want now is a nap––make that an early turn-in, on account of the late hour. To the bedroom you go, but as you stare at the clothes in your way which you have yet to fold and the bed that’s only three-quarters made, you resume your talk with God. “Lord, where did I get off-track?”
Ah. Right. Lesson learned.
“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…”
