And so Sunday draws to a close. The good news is we live to tell about it. What amazes me is we are already through two months of 2009. It does seem as if we just finished up the holidays and now we are looking into March. We are already talking about summer plans around here. No wonder it is a good idea to relish each day to savor it. How often do we feel bound to the schedules given to us by others? We want to just have time that is exclusively ours. No way is that a bad thing. The devil yet again is in the details of making it happen.

There is no secret to managing life. I read more than a few books on the topic only to come to the conclusion that I spent too much time reading books on that topic. Our world is an entirely different reality than the one of the 20Th century. You can find photos of family life in the 1950s and 60s where families all ate at the dinner table together. The man might even still be in a coat and tie. The mother is pictured as relaxed and attentive to those around the table. Contrast that to our fast food world of today. To look at photographs of a family at meal time could be more exhausting than restful.

We have an endless supply of technology gadgets to organize our life. You can carry around your life history on a phone that fits in a pocket now. Yet it seems that the more stuff we collect to manage daily life just adds to its complication. My tool of organization consists mostly of post it notes. This method came about after trying other ways of coping. Maybe the problem with our attempts to keep up with life is not about technology or calendars. Could it be the only thing that will calm our chaotic world is to live with a centered heart?

How much of our busyness reflects a relationship with God? It could be asked if our agendas of the day matter more than marking something off our to do list. We may not only feel hurried by life but we may wonder if what we do really matters. One of the great gifts of being a disciple is that we let God into our tasks. We can take Him to work with us. We can let Him tag along while we are at school. We can make Him at home while we do our chores around the house. We can take the risk of allowing Him to interrupt our lists so we can find His life.

My hope is that this week will be better for all of us. There is little doubt of the challenges that will come up as we move through the days. There is also a real hope for taking a chance to live our life larger than our lists. Far too often my week ends with too many things left undone. This bothers me more than you know. Is there any worse feeling than the one that says you did not accomplish all that you can? The only thing that comes to mind is if we finish our list without having God interact with us. Let's see if we can somehow do some or a lot of both. May you finish your list and find that God did more than you originally imagined possible.

Bro. Trey