Bobby and I had a pretty busy weekend. Friday night we had a big Lord of the Rings event for the students. It was an involved game of clues that had students running all over campus trying to solve a puzzle. Saturday the Worship Cafe band had a concert which kept me in rehearsal from 2-6pm and the concert going from 7-9pm. Today we had some time to rest and our first missions trip meeting. It was encouraging to get to talk with some students about how much they learned about ministry since last year’s trip and how many are looking forward to this summer’s trip. It is now late Sunday night, my weekend is nearly over and I’m getting some things ready for the week– cleaning and laundry. Sometimes I feel that time is marching on and I am being dragged reluctantly behind it forced to exit and enter each day whether I want to or not. I don’t necessarily like living this way. I would love to live a life of Saturdays and have time to go on long walks, read, visit with people and not multi-task so much. But even though I face a new week of week-days my heart is thankful for all the people and opportunities that God puts in my life day in and day out…opportunities to serve Him. I must choose whether it be with my whole heart or not.

At the concert I got to do a song called “Unashamed Love.” It had a line that said, “You’re calling me to lay aside the worries of my day. To quiet down my busy mind and find a hiding place…for You are worthy, so worthy.” As I thought more about those words I came to see that God doesn’t really want me to have moments of quietness where I focus on Him periodically. Even though at first glance this sounds like a good idea or better than nothing at all. He calls me to have a mind that is filled with His peace and hiding in Him always. He reigns above all the busy-ness, troubles and headaches that any day brings and He will bring me through victoriously as I surrender my preoccupation with self and success, giving whole-heartedly all I am always to Him…for He alone is worthy.