29
Jan
2007
Free as a Kite!
I had a great weekend away with Amy, the kids and a good crowd of close friends! It was Great just to get time away with the people that we love the most, I enjoyed the fact that we had set aside a weekend to go away but we had no plans or programs to fulfil, so walking, drinking coffee, playing games, lighting fires and lazing about was the general agenda every day.
January has been a Very Busy month, pretty stressful at times, but I feel refreshed and feel ready to take on another month (in fact maybe even the whole year), and to be honest I feel totally clear headed looking into February. My goal for the weekend was to create space, to empty out the stress and to soak in God, and I think I did a good job at accomplishing that.
On Saturday I enjoyed watching some of the guys fly kites on the beach, as I watched the kites blow to and fro, without ant sense of direction I began to see God show me the importance for me not to depend on direction and security but rather on the source. The Kite blows because its source is the wind, but it doesn’t depend on a direction or a secure path and while in life these things are good, I was Glad to grasp that truth, as I’ve needed to hear wisdom like that for a while, today if You feel your life is going everywhere or maybe nowhere, don’t worry, as long as Your source is God, everything will be ok! (By ok I mean God will be in control and when He’s in control He can do the worrying)
Later on we went on the journey to find a chippy as the kids were getting hungry, I learned yet again that depending on signposts for direction can get you lost (especially in Donegal) So an unnamed friend and me spend a good hour Lost (and we didn’t even have our mobile phones), we weren’t worried that we were lost (unfortunately those at home were) but in a way it sort of proved my Learning from the kites that the direction and security aren’t always the most important thing, its just knowing that the source You depend on will get you through your trial. Today Let God Control Your Life,
Let Go and Be Free!
