I covet your prayers.
Hey, folks. I know I’ve been MIA lately. Even now I don’t have anything profound or meaningful to share with you. I’m just writing to let you know I’m still here and I covet your prayers. All is well, as it always is when God is sovereign, but the reasons to pray continue to multiply.
We’ve had much happen to and in our family recently. The kids seem to be growing at exponential rates, making our responsibility as their parents and spiritual guides all the more overwhelming. Top top it off, I’ve discovered I really don’t like doing children’s ministries and I don’t know how to get out of it.
Okay, that last one may need a little explanation. Hmmm … I don’t think I’ll give one. *grin* Scripture teaches about spiritual gifts. We all have them and we all need to use them to further the kingdom of God. We need to use them to edify the church and point the lost to Christ. Well, after 17 years of doing children’s ministries — VBS, puppets, music, drama, teaching Sunday School, street clubs and more — I don’t think my gifts lie there. Or maybe they do, but I spend all day using those gifts with my own kids. By the time I get to “ministry” time, I’m sick of kids and long to develop other gifts. Which leads me to my next prayer request …
I haven’t had the time nor the energy to write. Conference season quickly approaches and I’m not prepared. Furthermore, I’m unmotivated. I feel ill-equipped, tired and fraudulent. The rejection slips are piling up, causing me to doubt everything.
Prayer. I need to pray. Only by talking with God can all things be made right again. Only then can my perspective be corrected and my strength renewed.
Posted on March 26, 2008, in ministry, prayer, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
Stand firm, girl.
We’re all unmotivated, ill-equipped, tired, and frauds. We’re all rejected. That’s okay.
Write anyway. Find ten minutes to write. It doesn’t matter what you right, not at this time. Just write.
And for heaven’s sakes, 17 years! I think you need a sabbatical!
May God bless you with renewed vision and hope…may He open your eyes as He comforts your heart…may He be your All in All as you follow where He leads…
“Just say no.” If your heart isn’t into doing the children’s ministry, stop doing it. I was crazy for children before I had children, and then after I had mine, I focused only on mine. Raising my kids was the greatest joy in my life, nothing I can ever do now will ever equal that joy; cherish the time with them, they do grow up SO fast!
Your time is God’s time; don’t worry about writing unless He opens up the time, and as well, trust that He WILL, when the time is RIGHT.
Love and prayers to you.
Sometimes when we leave a space, it is good. There’s someone else just discovering a gift that needs to be exercised, and when we vacate, she is able to move in.
Conference season. Where are you going?
LL: Precisely. I’m learning to not feel guilty when I say “no.”
I’m hoping to attend the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference. Last year I hit Blue Ridge in NC. Someday I’ll get out to Mt. Herman or Glorietta, but with two young kids, I’ve got to stay local for now — meaning the east coast.
Tanya,
The writing gift is a particularly emotional one, and one that is tied to that most mysterious of things – creative inspiration. If it could be bottled, people would be selling it on the street.
Prayers for you in this time, for what you need, whatever it is.
Hi, Tanya, sorry I have not been around in awhile,took a holiday to New Zealand for two weeks thoroughly enjoyed the countryside it is so beautiful,and peaceful.
I haven’t been motivated to write at all lately either. But I figure I would just forget about it and hopefully God will lead me to feel inspired..
As a mother with grown up children I have been where you have, school stuff, sports, rushing here and there. This was all well and good but I had to stop and think about it. I had to stop and give thought to myself as you do for yourself; God speaks to us and lets us know when to slow down and to focus on ourselves.You have your whole life time ahead of you so there is no need to rush to do everything. I am speaking from experience,I had to slow down or I would break down. My greatest gift is being a mum, nothing comes before it.
It takes me longer to complete tasks now because I am not all that young, and sometimes I think I will never complete them in my life time.But I think “whatever”..I want my kids to remember me for me their mum not for what I have or have not achieved..