Spread too Thin

A month ago, my friend Beth gave me mini-lecture on "just say no". I have gotten spared to thin and have become less than "effective as possible" in everything.

She told me it is alright to "just say no" which I already knew. I searched the decision making part of my brain and found out that I really don't have a problem saying no to other people, I have trouble saying no to myself.

I love to learn new things, I love to teach, I love to create, I love to be with other people. It is sooooo easy to over commit.

Last night I found myself agreeing to do ONE MORE THING....But fortunately, I caught myself and said "not 'til after January".

So where is God in all of this? I have obviously been given the spirit of "revolving involving evolving" rather than one of "routine executer". I have been blessed with a life that has fed that spirit.

I have lived 10 lifetimes of events from hiking out of the Grand Canyon alone (I was flown down there in a helicopter) to running a church nursery.

Luke 12:48 ... From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

First a look at what I need to heed: Ecclesiastes 4:4 And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

I see something and I want it for myself. It could be a thing, an experience, whatever. This is part of my "drive". That drive is perpetrated by people asking me to do things. "Can you do such and such" flips my mind into "I would love to experience this". PLEASE NOTE: This is not a spirit of service!!!!!

Oh, how I need to heed having a spirit of service.....But would my focus would become apparent? So some of my "spared thinness" is because I am serving.

then 1 Chronicles 29:6-14 says The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.


Okay, so how do I focus?????? How do I do what I was meant to do? I don't have time to figure that out right now, I have too much other stuff to do.