Sitting with God

This Lent I want to try to be a bit more quiet… (I’ll continue as soon as the snickering has died down..!)

I think that we’re so good at being busy… we want to be as busy as we possibly can be, cramming a hundred things into our day. We pride ourselves on being busier than other people. But what is it all for? Busier lives don’t usually mean fuller lives, although if our lives were empty that wouldn’t be good either..! I think that the balance of work, play, noise and silence is really important… but its often difficult to work out. I think that this especially applies to our relationships with God. We are told (in good evangelical fashion) that we must have a ‘quiet time’ each day. So, we strive (usually) to do this… we rush into God’s presence, read a bit of Bible, say a prayer and then rush into the rest of the day… the ‘real’ part of our lives. We don’t take time to sit, be still, wait on God. I’ve been trying to do this more… but I find it really hard. I think that I’m doing well… you know, not just talking away to God, but trying to listen too… but then I realise that I’m just thinking about what we should have for dinner, or a conversation that I had with someone, or when I need to do for work that day. I guess that we can only hope that as we practice being still before God more, we will improve… but we need his help to do it!

On a different note, we still haven’t heard anything from the social services department about the papers that we handed in for the adoption. We at least know that they have them… but apart from that, nada. Its been nearly 2 months, but I know that I shouldn’t get impatient… everything will happen (or not happen) in God’s timing. (Yeah, that’s another thing that’s hard to get your head/heart around… just trusting God simply for every thing in life.) We know from friends who have been through this process that it doesn’t happen ultra quickly… but that it will work out in the end. We are holding onto the hope that they have encouraged us with, and to the knowledge that God is our loving Father, in whom we can fully trust. Keep praying for us though… that we can keep faithful, and that God would work out his will in our lives.