In the waiting and chaos of getting ready for this trip, I am realizing that I am more than capable of switch-tasking and multitasking. The problem is that changes my focus every few seconds, and I tend to assign more worth to objects and tasks than I do to Father and what he has planned for me. I lose focus on Him and why He has allowed me to be a person. He wants to be the first place in my heart and the agenda of the day.
Father has given me the incredible ability to multitask at an extremely high capacity, and do that extremely well. However, the flip side is that I also have a difficult time switching that brain off and focusing on one task or person at a time.
Last spring semester I took a class called Spiritual Formation. It was all about spiritual disciplines and very practical ways of training our minds and bodies to follow what Father has for us specifically, and not just workers in general. One of those disciplines we looked at was one we all needed to train more to practice: Silence/Stillness. I am being reminded again that I need to revisit this discipline and begin training my mind again to become still.
I ask you, Father, to train my mind to not only be able to multitask with precision and efficiency, but also to stop and focus on one task or person or You as You would have me do.
As of right now, this simply means spending a few minutes at a time lying on the floor of my room, and repeating, “I will be still. I will be still and know what you are God. You are God.”
