Wake Up Call
Posted by Danielle Bean in Faith on Friday, June 19, 2009 11:00 AM
Do you ever get the feeling God is trying to get your attention?
I got that feeling yesterday afternoon. Right about the time I found myself lying face down on my kitchen tiles, gasping in pain.
I had been rushing again.
I think God does not like it when I rush too much. It’s a very bad habit of mine to attempt to cram too much activity, too much thought, too much stuff into my too short days and too small mind.
But yesterday afternoon there were phone calls to make and laundry to fold and kids to drive places, and a late lunch to prepare in the middle of it all. Which is why I was rushing through the kitchen holding a chair, of course, because I am too short to reach into our highest cabinets.
The dog wasn’t rushing, though.
The dog was lounging on the floor, in the precise path I would take to get to the high cabinet. And the chair I was holding obscured my view of that path.
And so it was that in the graceful scene that ensued, I hit the ceramic kitchen tiles. Hard.
I said some words, my children told me later. I only know that I could not have said them loudly because I was in too much pain. Sharp, breath-taking pain, I tell you. My knee, my wrist, my foot ... It’s been a long while since I’ve felt such pain.
I don’t think I broke anything. But I sure did slow down. And I sure am sore now.
And now today, each time I try to lift something a bit too heavy with my sore wrist, I feel God’s reminder in the stabbing pain: Slow down.
Each time I put a bit too much weight on my sore foot, I feel God’s reminder there too: Enough, already.
And so it is enough. And I will take today slowly. Enough stuff. Enough activity. Enough rushing.
There are plenty of things to do today and I will do many of them. One at time, though. Slowly.
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