So now that we’re back home and have had a lot of time to think I’d like to share some “new season” resolutions. The first one is for me to “be where I am, and do what I’m doing.”

Sounds simple, but it’s not so simple. As a child I often experienced that “can’t wait” feeling. As I grow older and have more experiences I don’t feel that way so often any more, but I do sometimes “fast forward” mentally to the next thing on my list or, more often, the next better thing.

At the end of Matthew 6 Jesus warns us that today has enough worries of its own. This is my inspiration for my Mandate #1. Too often I’m in one place doing one thing but thinking about, hoping for, or even can’t wait to be doing something else. The consequence is often deceivingly destructive. I end up blowing off situations and rushing through them with little effort. Perhaps I even become impatient. However I respond it hardly matches Colossians 3:23. How can we do something as unto the Lord when we are only looking forward to the next thing?

Lord help me to be where I am and do what I am doing at any moment of the day. Please clear my mind of preoccupations so that I can please you in all circumstances. Especially the boring ones.