It's a little humorous to me that God will teach us a lesson anywhere. Most of my little talks with God are while I'm doing my daily chores. That's probably because that's when I'm finally quiet enough to hear Him.
So after I got done with my oatmeal bowl, I took it over to the sink and started filling it up with water. Imediately I started having this debate in my head whether or not I should rinse and put int the dishwasher or if I should do it later. I started thinking about all my husbands and my talks with the kids about "No Procrastination- just get it done, then you don't have to think about it."
See when I leave something like that I have to create a reminder in my head to come back to it - I call them "Post - it" Notes on my brain.
Then I thought of other people I know that do that all the time. Practically everything they touch they do it half way and then go back to it. So God gave me a vision of how that played out in different roles and positions in life:
What if I was a brain surgeon - I did a little snip here and a poke there, then I decided to leave the operating room and go check on another patient and check a few charts ....
You say well - I was just leaving a dish it's not as important as brain surgery. But -
What about a cook at a restaurant? They get an order for a burger and fries. So they throw the fries in the hot oil and then decide they will go bake a pie. Other than the dangers of burning the place up, the person that ordered the burger has to wait a very long time for their food.
So then I thought about my job, an office job and I say to God, I get your point but it doesn't directly relate to me because i have an office job. Nobody is going to die (brain surgery), or go hungry (Cook) if I leave something for a day or two. And like always God had something to say about that as well. He agreed (about the dying and hungry), then he gave me the analogy of a production worker on an assembly line. And told me that each of us are a part in the big circle of life, an assembly line so to speak. Everything, let me repeat that, Everything we do in life affects someone in one way or another. If we delay doing something, it delays something else. Anything we step over or walk around and don't attend to is something someone else has to do. It's as if we are saying my time is more important that yours so I'm leaving the work for you to do. Anything you don't do means someone else has to do it.
What would happen if we deciced to clean a mess up that we didn't make, just so someone else didn't have to. We see a need and take care of it. Now let me remind you that there is a difference between helping and interferring, Doing your part does not mean you get into others space, it just means you take care of your stuff so others don't have to pick up your slack.
What would happen if everyting we touched we purposed in our lives to touch it and be done with it. Would it clear some of that mental clutter in our brains, all those mental reminders and post-it notes. Would we find that it actually gave us some extra time because we didn't have to review what it was that we left behind and then start back up again? Would it help us to be more calm and peaceful because of that lack of clutter in our minds? Hmmm
Shall we give it a try?
