I wrote a post either on here on or Substack exploring how I was feeling overwhelmed and stressed and how, though QEC, prayer and free writing, I managed to get to a calmer place. And, on the whole I’m still holding that place, even though this week has been crazy!! My elderly dog has to have his eye out due to a persistent eye ulcer, I’ve got to have some major gum cleaning over several weeks, the little dog still needs some training, the writing groups are growing, and my head is full. As well as all this I’ve had my lovely daughter staying and then in about 10 days I’m potentially off south to see my Mum. I was also worrying about housework-type things, of decluttering and decorating, and of reading a friend’s poems, catching up on emails, and of finding time to sort out more courses for my writing groups, plus finding time for my own writing.
The overwhelm was creeping up again!!! And I can’t get to this lovely place at the moment! But God/The Universe has another plan!
Well I love it when God/The Universe have a something to say and the way they say it. My husband has our new car radio tuned to UCB [United Christian Broadcasters] and I forget to change it before I start driving. So yesterday, after the dentist and before the vet trip, I was driving and popped it on. There was a woman promoting the book she’d written and it started with her saying “and Martha was in the kitchen trying to put together a three course meal.”
Well I reacted to that because I’d read somewhere about how Mary and Martha, and their brother Lazarus, were wealthy, so I shouted at the radio “But they had servants” to which I felt God reply “And?”
Well then this is what unfurled …..
Mary was sat at Jesus feet because she knew the servants were more than capable of sorting out food for everyone. This might have been the first time Jesus came to eat but they would have often entertained, which is why Jesus knew he wasn’t intruding or making life difficult.
But Martha didn’t quite trust those servants so she was rushing behind them, fussing over them, trying to tell them their job, tell them how to do things extra-specially, as if they didn’t know.
At the moment I knew I could lay things down and trust those who know what they are doing. My dentist knows what’s best for my teeth and, as she herself said, she wouldn’t do work on me if it didn’t need doing. My vet also has had years of training and knows what is best for my dog and wouldn’t be taking his eye out if he didn’t need it.
As for those other things I have to listen not just to my heart as to whether I want to do them or not, whether I am meant to do them now or not, but I need to look at the things in my life that have to be done, which I suppose it also a heart thing.
And I need to trust God/The Universe that I will get done what I should get done for each single day and not worry about either what doesn’t get done or about tomorrow. I think “your will be done” in my life means that I do what has been allotted for me today and let go of the rest.
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