Our business (Handyman Can!) is booming, as is often the case this time of year. Lots of new customers and projects to keep us running.
Speaking of running, it's been so busy lately, it has been tough just to keep up. My hubby worded it well when he said: "It's hard when it's slow because we need money, but it's hard when it's fast because it seems impossible to keep up." Just two months ago, we were hungry for work. We prayed and prayed for more work. We laid off all our employees and it stunk. God provided for all of our bills, often just at the last minute, sometimes in ways we didn't expect. Now, we have a glut of work, like serious overflow, like hire-more-people-yesterday Glut. Amazing, right? We have just what we prayed for, but we are exhausted.
How do you keep up? We have been running non-stop day and night for three weeks straight and there's no sign it will slow down. For me it's been a struggle to focus on what's really important, to slow down enough to see God working. It's easy to see His provision when we don't have money in the morning for a bill due that day, but have it before the day is over. It's so evident that He has provided and I find myself constantly praising Him for everything. But what about when we have all we need and a lot of what we want too? It's times like this that I get busy and forget to praise, forget to "lean not on my own understanding." It's times like this that I am most miserable.
So tonight, I'm trying to praise God for all he has provided and to be joyful in the busy-ness, without grumbling, knowing that God has given me only what I can handle, with His help. He heaped these blessings on me, I only need to enjoy them. I need to continue to seek Him and rest in His perfect peace in the middle of the blessings -- learning to focus on God, not the gifts He has given.
