Everytime my golf swing is bad I have to go back to the beginning and think, grip and stance and just let the club do the work. When I am flailing at life it all goes back to my spiritual walk and not a hap hazard every now and then kind of walk but a daily habit of doing what I know to do. First things first!!!! Not just sometimes but all the tmes.
I have so many dreams and wishes and connecting them all to make sense can make a traffic jam of disconnect and wrong turns in my head. I am so enthusiastic and so dreamy and so passionate about a lot of things but what is that one thing, the main thing? I am working on my speaking and coaching career and my writing career and and and…… while doing my main job of running a large company that I love by the way. But there is more so much more and how in the heck do we add it all?
I am convinced that I am put here to make life brighter and sweeter but how do I do that especially today? So as with all the things it is putting my spiritual walk first over EVERYTHING and ALL THINGS!!!!
I am re-reading a GREAT book by Mark Batterson called Draw the Circle. So for 40 days I am committing to reading this book and putting into practice all the things I believe to be true. The things and the being that has always worked whether I am facing divorce, death of a spouse, loss of a friend, rehab for my family one more time, addiction, heartache, weightloss, indecision, questions about my direction, questions about my motherhood, my personhood. You get it and I get it too, its all of it.
I think as a Jesus follower we have great intentions and we pray and we just move along our day without really thinking about the power and the purpose in those prayers. I re-read something in Draw the Circle that slapped me in the heart and I think it will slap you too.
“If you establish a prayer routine, your life will be anything but routine. You will go to places, do things, and meet people you have no business going to, doing, or meeting. You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.“
I will tell you that has been true my whole life so if it is true then why do I need to be reminded of what is true? Well the world has given me opportunities to tune into and be involved in so many many things. Many of these things are good really good but are they really great? I have to be positioned or reminded that I sometimes have to leave things alone that may be good things so I may be about the great things.
“If you pray to God regularly, irregular things will happen on a regular basis.” Mark Batterson.
So for today and that is the only day that I have at present I will know that the truth of me is in the basics. Loving God and loving people. How He chooses for me to do that I am working on that but in the meantime I will just keep praying on a regular basis so my life will be anything but regular.
My hope for you is an irregular life!!!!!
Grateful and hopeful,
Karen Key Smith
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