How often do we fail to thoroughly enjoy moments that we have been given?

I find myself more often than I’d like to admit being in a moment whilst thinking of what lies ahead. That moment will pass so quickly and we cannot go back there or revisit beautiful ones that we’ve wasted. There have been many overdue but rushed catch-up coffee dates with dear friends or date nights with my husband that end way too early because of a TV program we don’t want to miss or a item on our to-do list that we want to tick off.

Moments with my children have sometimes ended in irritation and disappointment because of unmet expectations. In each of these times the common thread has been me not embracing and fully enjoying the moment because of any kind of ‘something’. Whatever that ‘something’ is, I’ve allowed it to steal the joy and pleasure of the moment. I’ve been thinking today of the many occasions when I have been given a space of an hour or even a couple of minutes where God has called me away from the madness of life. Instead of breathing in His presence and being still in that moment, I look for my phone, think of a transaction I need to do on my laptop, a call I need to make or a grocery item I still need to get. My tires need to be pumped, my husband needs me to attend to something, my daughters are calling – anything and everything but the stillness and the beauty of that moment.

What would it take for me to lay down my devices, my to-do list, my pressing need to be busy and just be? The presence of God is a sweet and heady place to be and being called there by Him is an absolute privilege.

My prayer today is that you and I will heed that call and leave everything else outside the door as we enter in and close the door behind us for a short while and enjoy a perfect moment of refreshing, anointing and a guaranteed filling of our spiritual, emotional and mental tanks.

“God, my shepherd! I don’t need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows, you find me quiet pools to drink from. True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭23‬:‭1‬-‭3‬ ‭MSG‬‬