When I was younger I used to do gymnastics, and I have to say those were some of the best years of my life. I loved being able to pretzel myself up, twirl, jump and leap around a gym. As I grew older and my body grew taller my flexibility changed. Now, flexibility on the race means an entirely different thing. It can be flexibility in how you shift yourself to get comfortable in a bus to sleep, on my mattress to sleep, on a bench that you’re sitting on, or even when a child falls asleep in your arms. If can even be how flexible you are when plans change.
Last month really taught me about flexibility. There were days when we really didn’t know what we were doing until the day of came and we found out. Or we would have the day mapped out from when we would be eating breakfast, who we were going to see, what we would eat for lunch and dinner and come breakfast, all our plans would change. It was a definite learning experience and always kept us on our toes. God always had a better plan in mind for us. So, going into this month, I tried to keep the same mentality of flexibility both mentally and physically.
One Tuesday night we were heading down to church and I was planning on journalling the whole time to just talk to God. He’d been showing a lot of thing to me that I wanted to work through and felt like a two hour church service was the perfect time to do so. He had other plans for me.
As I sat down in a pew not even ten minutes after sitting down, a little girl and her family came down the aisle and the girl came and ran and sat next to me and wanted to be held. The whole service I held her, she fell asleep in my arms and I sang and hummed all during service. Lord has a funny sense of humor! Here I was wanting to delve into my journal and instead I was holding this beautiful child of His to sleep. What was I to do? God showed me that though it was my plan for the day, His plan was better. I relaxed during service, prayed for this child I didn’t know, I prayed for Papa to keep giving me insight on everything.
Flexibility is a mindset. Its being able to change at a moments notice. Like when a child runs to your arms at church when you really want to spend that time just seeking the Lord, but you can find another way seeking Him even when you hold a child in your arms.
Its all about mindset.
