The Soul Of My Feet

In the last few months I have been really trying to walk for at least 20 mins every day, not so much for the physical benefits but more so for the mental benefits. I just find I’m in such a better mood and I’m able to achieve so much more. Recenty my five year old son has been coming with me and it has been such a blessing to spend some one on one time just walking and talking together. I asked him at dinner one night what his favourite part of the day was and he said the time he gets to spend with mummy going for a walk. Wow, it blew me away how important that time is that we spend together, we discover so much more about each other and come back feeling refreshed. Our own Father wants us to walk with him also on a daily basis so we can discover, unload and learn more about the path we’re travelling on…

Sometimes I wish I had the courage to get rid of the TV,  the computer, the iPod, the mobile phones just so my kids don’t get addicted to them…

It seems as though there is a battle for us parents to find that right balance between enjoying technology and enjoying God’s creation outside the house. We actually had to lie to our 5 year old recently about daddy’s iPod, that we’d accidently left it on holiday… so now after hours we have to sneak around with our technology just so our 5 year old can believe the lie. I’m not sure what God might think of that but as a parent I am fearful for this generation that are faced with so many distractions and consumerism at such a young age. When do they get a chance to be a kid and create and discover butterflies and caterpillars? Could it happen that books might become a thing of the past soon with the invention of ebooks?

We can only pray that our children will be children for as long they can be and enjoy the free things of life on God’s big screen and not the 120 inch plasma…

There has been a lot going on lately in life, loads of ministry, work, study and family stuff but I can finally breath again and I have been slowing down to hear God in all of it. One of the things he is speaking to me about at the moment is how I define myself. For many years I have run a small business and whilst I have loved every minute of it and the way God has used it for his glory I think it has slowly defined me and I think ever so slowly I have begun to place my trust in it. I have been at a CrossRoads lately and have two directions I could travel but I’m pretty sure I know which path God wants me to take. But more importantly he wants me to take a path where I am defined, not by what I do but who I am in the middle of what I am doing. And above all, I am His, forever, defined not by my status, but His.

Amen