Hurry Up and Wait!

I have to say that the word I think I hate the most is wait! And I know that I am not alone in this. Why do we just hate to wait all the time. Don't we know that all good things come in time? It seems like I have been waiting forever for Saturday. I entered the whole process over five years ago and it is now finally almost over. I recently had to plan my own ordination service and have everything done by a certain amount of time. I hurried up and got everything done. But now, now I must wait for Saturday. It seems so far away. Yet I know that it is much closer than it was five years ago. There isn't anything I can do to make it come any quicker. It still will take 24 hours for the earth to completely rotate thus causing a day.
I think this is something the disciples knew all too well. They were told they needed to do all of these things and they did them. They knew that Jesus would return. Yet, they believed that it was just right around the corner, our time. Not in God's time. The disciples waiting the rest of their lives for Christ to return again and yet their desire to see this was never fruitful. Puts a whole new meaning to what it means to hurry up and wait.

A Sunday Morning Thought

So I am sitting in my office on Sunday morning thinking about everything that is to take place today. I have a list of things to do. Tomorrow a professor of mine is coming into town so I will not be in the office most of the day. Instead I will be working on Friday when I normally do not. However, I still want to get some extra stuff done today so that I will feel relaxed tomorrow. I need to go visit a couple of people this afternoon. I need to do next week's bulletin. I need to update the blog that I have neglected this past week. I need to start looking at my sermon. And I also need to get my house ready for more company.
We always have lists of things to do, don't we? But I often wonder how much of it is for us? Well, probably all of it. God doesn't just want us to spend an hour with him on Sunday mornings. He doesn't just want us to spend some personal time with him each day. He truly wants us to spend our whole lives with him. But how do we do that? In the midst of our crazy busy schedules, how is every moment spent with Him? We still have things we need to do. The fishermen still fished didn't they?
So anyway, as I continue to ponder this for myself, what does it mean for you? How do you live in God's midst even in your busiest times?
More thoughts on this later...