Word of God Speak

I have been swamped over the last week. I have been busy acting as an assistant for my hubby's health insurance business that I will be taking over as soon as I get back to California and get my insurance license. I have been schooling my kindergartner - wow, he is smart! I have been teaching little ones at bible study. I've been grocery shopping, to the post office, and in search of inexpensive new pants for Biggest who has shot up about 3 inches since leaving California in August. Hubby got hurt in training last week so I was worried about him. I have also been very preoccupied with finances and the dreaded move to the Bay Area. All of this has left me dry. My computer time has been work and I have not had a desire to read the usual blogs or post. Until today.

I was sending a friend a link to our Sac church website. On the site there is a link to Mike's blog so I though I'd see what he was up to. There is a point in his current post where he quoted a challenge to stop and write a six line poem. I took that challenge and without thinking (which I have been doing too much of lately) poured this out:

When I am filled with grief

I am able to find relief

by sitting down in prayer

and finding my creator there.

He knows me as I am

and offers me his hand

to guide me through

the life I thought I knew

and then I am filled with peace.

Yes, very limerik like - I did have to fight the urge to start with "There once was a man from Natomas". But instead I started and then asked God what should come next. I truly felt alive and at peace in the few seconds it took to write it. What a lesson in the myriad of ways that God can speak to and through us if we only take the time to stop, listen (openly) and act. So, what does God want to say through you?