My Prayer for Balance

An excerpt from Untitled:Gospel Diva...

Reverend Pugh spit the fish out his mouth into the tin foil that it once laid in and threw the disgusting contents in the trash can sitting beside him. “Thank you, sweetheart.” He yelled back to me.

If I didn’t believe that God had anointed him, I probably would have gagged the remaining bits of my morning croissant and orange juice breakfast and ran out of the park or quit on him a long time ago. But when you hear Pugh squawk/squeal/sang every fiber in your being knows that God is moving through his raspy voice. And to be honest I would work for him for free just to have the holy spirit shiver through my body the way it does every time Pugh sings.

But his manners…Lord, knows the man needs an etiquette adjustment.


Today has been a doozy. I had to cancel an important staff/committee meeting today, because of no shows, including myself, who has problems with my car after I drove two cities over to pick up a committee member. My driving scared her so, I know she won't step one foot in my ride again. One of my editors lost two book reviews I submitted last year and I just don't have the time to hit the Find button on my very slow computer to search for them. Not today...plus I owe them another review. I have to pay a deposit for my daughter's 5th birthday party, submit another response from Lifeways Christian Bookstore's Jim Shull on this blog, interview someone for ???, buy a birthday gift for a relative. Another paper is harassing me about two stories that I didn't promise them I would do. All the while frustrated, because I have run out of excuses for why my book is only 25% complete.

So the only thing I have time to do [i have to pick up my daughter from prek in an thirty minutes]is something else that I was supposed to do last month for my writing group-- write my prayer for balance. Here goes...


Lord, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for giving us a life we enjoy so much that we are too busy to sit still. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
But I know your spirit told me ions ago I need to make myself rest.
I need to rest in your will.
I need to remove some things that although are good for you, but are not the things you want me to do.
I need to realize/stop/understand that I can't do all things. Only you can...
Lord, I need balance.
And I need you to forgive me for my mistake.
Help me not make this mistake again.
I need the strength to choose balance over ambition, over my inability to say no, over my fear of success.
You told me to write this book.
You expect me to write this book.
And the spiritual balance that you have given to me will make it so.
In your son's precious name.
Because you are so good and sweet to me.
Amen

Scriptural Reference:Corinthians 10:13 (King James Version)

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Hope your life stays in balance. As of today mine will.

Writing to see what the end gon' be,
Dee

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