While I was traveling I came upon a moment when I asked Sarah L Cook to come see why my blow dryer wasn’t working. I am all but non-visual in the mornings, a bilateral eye issue continues to make mornings creative when I travel. If I misplace my glasses I can’t even see well enough to find them. I had tried turning on my own blowdryer, I had tried the hotel blow dryer first, nothing was turning on. Sarah graciously agreed to come see what she could see…she had smartly asked…”Did you push the reset on the fuse?” 
I shared that I wasn’t sure what that looked like, so she came over and this is what she saw…the dryers were not plugged in. I had failed to do the most important part of using a blow dryer….I had failed to plug either in to the source that runs them. In my defense, most blow dryers I use in hotels are already hard wired at the hotel brand I frequent. …it hadn’t occurred to me that the dryer was waiting on me.
What are you not plugging in? What resources do you have right in front of you ready to work if you simply plugged in? When will you take time to return to the basics of what’s not working in your life? Basics matter….our lives do not work as well if we do not seek God’s plan for our lives…even when His plans don’t make sense…ask me how I know…
Part of my “owning my life” stuff is realizing that I am too often trying to run my life without plugging into God first that day. My intention is to always seek God first, but darn it I regularly find myself taking management liberties with His plan for my life. Can you relate? Then when I am weary, frustrated, and knowing something is just not right….I realize that I’ve neglected to plug in for God’s resources into my life….peace, joy, wisdom, direction, and love. God is God and the short of it is I am not.
Ouch.
What areas of your life are you unplugged? How are you seeking to “own your life”? Are you walking in integrity with yourself? I wasn’t. I would say “I’d like to lose weight” and while my friends would suggest that it wasn’t how much I ate, but perhaps what I ate….that maybe, just maybe wheat and other things were part of the problem. Nonsense I said, I’ve eaten it for ages…then a month came up that I was willing to go without wheat for 30 days…31 pounds later and a WHOLE lotta better health. Because I am a Thomas, I did eat wheat again and when I did, I could immediately sense “danger Will Robinson…I was swelling.” Who knew? Wheat sensitive? When we get so used to what it is our experience, we forget that our experience may be in no way shape or form what THE experience that was intended can be….ever tried blow drying your hair without electricity….waving your hands back and forth in no way makes the same effect happen as a plugged in blow dryer. So is our life…without God it simply isn’t the same…
Are you unplugged?
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Excellent point that we frequently overlook, Sweetie.
God is God, and we are not.
And, no matter how much control we think we have over things, our control has a very limited scope. It is the nature of our culture, and what we have come to call societal norms. We push and shove and push some more, until we are exhausted.
We overlook the true source of our joy and peace by not plugging in.
Martina,
The cross country trip the last ten days has simply drilled it into my head…God’s ways are not our ways…and the faster I embrace that reality the faster His realities of abundance, prosperity, peace, and joy emerge more fully in my life….and it was good before! Obedience isn’t easy, but its a path worth fighting for!
hugs
S
I love how you are able to so eloquently capture the lessons of every day life! Glad to be of service in the blowing drying department as well as in your health!
xoxo – Sarah
Sarah,
You’ve been integral in many areas of my life. It is such a gift in friendship and in working together to have the clarity and insight to share meaningful moments.
Best,
Sweetie