Monday's Mantra: Who/What are you Plugged into?

Welcome to Monday’s Mantra and Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power and Trench Classes United. I hope you are still smiling from the memories made this Thanksgiving. I just love this time of year but it’s taken me time to get there. Grab your coffee and your Strand of Faith and let’s go tie some knots as we gain a fresh perspective as “the season” comes upon us.

Tis’ the season…Do you have too much month at the end of your money? Does time run out before your list of things ends? Why is it that these two things, time and $$, pull our focus with a steroidal tug that can literally knock us off balance and leave us completely unaware of the needs of others.

I’m not one that watches a lot of T.V. nor am I one who can recite commercials word for word or character for character but there are a couple that have caught my eye, and encouraged my soul over the last few days, the commercials from TJ Max, Marshalls and Home Goods. Now some may say it’s just a marketing campaign to pull on peoples’ heartstrings, but hey, maybe it’s time we had our heartstrings pulled in a different direction, a direction that leads away from spending so much on too many inevitably sending us spiraling frantically when we go to pay the bills.

The sooner we face this truth, the sooner we can be free from busy business!

What we spend the majority of our time on is where our heart is.

There is no way we can be mindful of the needs around us if we are too busy, focused on our own agendas and especially if we haven’t gotten plugged into our Source first thing in the morning. And even then, if I’m running too fast, too much, I need to stop for a re-charge!

And get this: He waits there for you to plug into Him and recharge you! In Matthew 5:6, He tells us to go into our room and shut the door and pray to our Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you!

So…find a room with a door, shut it, talk with Him for a few minutes, get yourself recharged and refocused so as to avoid being pulled into the world, for though we are in it, we are not of it or from it. What would our worlds look like if we were to remain plugged in to Him more than remaining unplugged?

Thoughtfully,

Evinda