Have you ever stood next to a kettle while you wait for the water to boil? It seems like the water will never boil. Tap, tap, tapping of your fingers on the countertop. The never-ending drumming in your head that whistles LONG before the actual kettle rings.
This was my scenario this past week.
So many thoughts. Too many to count. And boy, were my fingers ever drumming. My heart had difficulty being still. But 5 words were able to sum up the entire scenario:
Burdened. Devotion. Conviction. Waiting. Focus.
Like the kettle, my heart has been learning to wait and to focus on the task at hand. There are lots of things in the balance--work, relationships with friends, dating, and with Jesus. It's so easy to turn my attention and gaze from where it needs to be--especially when impatience knocks on my door. As the kettle was burdened with desiring to boil the water inside, so my heart was burdened this week as well--wanting things to happen more quickly with my career, faith, and relationships. So the tap tap tapping not only took place with my hands, but upon my heart as well.
Do you ever find yourself here? Convicted that you need to be still--that things don't occur in your timing, but that they are always right on time? Trying to stay devoted to the task at hand, but continually drumming your fingers--finding yourself failing in the process?
I do. I did. This week.
But just as the water came to a boil and the kettle let out its yell of excitement, I was reminded of how great things happen at just the right time. I don't need to try and rush the process, but to embrace it as it comes.
And embrace it I will.
Until next week...
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