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<\/a><\/p>\nI have felt so pushed…so\u00a0shoved around…\u00a0that I often just want to dig my feet in and not think about or do\u00a0anything…\u00a0 I have come to a point of honestly… change is\u00a0relentless and life IS change… life is always changing and changing is pushy and pushy means I don’t know if I am ever confident with how things are going before that stage is gone and here I am being pushed to grow up, show up and be changed.<\/p>\n
How can life feel like one big constant state of ‘the waiting game’ and learning how to be patient while at the same time change and rush\u00a0and\u00a0push?<\/p>\n
TIME!<\/p>\n
Thanks a lot\u00a0time!<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for rushing at me, over me, past me.<\/p>\n
For\u00a0godliness with contentment is great gain.<\/em><\/p>\n ~1 Timonthy 6:6~<\/em><\/p>\n The more I remember Holy Spirit is closer then a brother… and invite him into my internal conversation… the more life seems to slow down.\u00a0 Years ago I learned the value of thankfulness, praising out of thankfulness no matter what life LOOKED LIKE at the time… I started practicing that with the baby steps of looking for the delightful littlest things in each day… I have a whole blog category called ‘little things’ that as I snooped through\u00a0I could see I was genuinely working on having a right perspective on life, and life defined as my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Sometimes I get so pushed I let myself get ahead of not only\u00a0myself but Holy Spirit (for he is in me) and that means I am getting ahead of the lamp at my feet and the\u00a0GOD, Jesus, who wants me to stayed armored up and in him.<\/p>\n And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in<\/b> you, <\/em><\/p>\n he who raised Christ<\/b> from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in<\/b> you.<\/em><\/p>\n ~Romans 8:11~\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n So how does one start pushing back?\u00a0 The introvert in me used to take over and hide… cancel… chop my schedules and plans up to almost nothing…\u00a0 I have learned it is far more effective, and less extreme if I don’t go with my habitual fear based clean sweep but instead surrender all the rush and push to Christ instead.\u00a0 I have experienced the pushing let up, fall away, and loose all strength over me\u00a0when I direct my obedience FIRST back to Jesus and away from my desires and the desires of those around me… even away from those who really do need me, like my husband and kids.\u00a0 Being in the now has become\u00a0clich\u00e9 but also remains\u00a0a legitamitly healthy goal.\u00a0 The more centered on Christ I am the more ‘in the now’ I am.\u00a0 Being present, and in that PLACE,\u00a0leads to me being clearly more balanced in my approach to life, myself and others \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 That place\u00a0is at the feet of my Jesus!<\/p>\n Therefore put on the full armor<\/b> of<\/b> God, so that when the day of<\/b> evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.<\/em><\/p>\n ~Ephesians 6:13~<\/em><\/p>\n Let me dive into another clich\u00e9 and express how true it is that life is a collections of storms about us, hurricanes even.\u00a0 Everything is going to be alright (yet another clich\u00e9 but these are all for me if not for anyone else today) and I am just going to STAND in Jesus in spite of how very pushy life is.<\/p>\n HALLELUJIAH!<\/p>\n TTFN<\/p>\n Always Lady Mac an Rothaich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IT IS DECEMBER!\u00a0 Oh my, I just keep looking back to post on here and that wasn’t my plan.\u00a0 I usually write to work through my present\u00a0‘mind stuff’\u00a0but to be straight with you… a touch of anxiety mixed with\u00a0laziness has given me a bad case of the ‘I don’t\u00a0cares or think I shouldn’t care… or\u00a0should\u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15,5,14,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}