Today I entered a giveaway on a blog to win a book by Glynnis Whitwer called I Used to Be So Organized. They asked us to leave a comment by answering this question, "Which is more challenging for you--managing your time or organizing your "stuff"? Or, is it a toss-up and both throw you for a loop?"
It got me to thinking about what to write because I know my life is very disorganized, but this is what I came up with,
"I think organizing my things is a HUGE challenge for me, because organizing my time has essentially worked out to comprising lists and using my Google calendar to get me through the week.
On the other hand though, going through my mounds of papers that have been thrown into boxes and tucked away in the corner of my room never to be seen again...well to say that phrase loosely...could and probably will result in me forgetting where and why I forgot to send this and that in. Especially when I get a notice saying, "We regret to inform you..." It can be very frustrating. Granted I am oh so thankful that I have gone "paperless" when it comes to bills and oh so thankful that our technology allows us to do most things electronically otherwise I really would be in a major slump every week/month.
Unfortunately, that is just for bills. All the other stuff still remains unorganized. Sometimes when I have a spare moment I go through these boxes of what I deem "necessary" and make little piles of where each paper, letter, postcard, trinket, etc. should go, but then I get distracted by a phone call or the doorbell and I forget about the piles until later on or the next day (so sad).
I feel like a clutter queen and no matter how I try I can never fully wrap myself around organization -- ha ha..."
I had to take a step back and re-read what I posted because although I view my life as a disorganized clutter-full wreck, God sees me as complete. He sees me as [a contradiction in terms...] his Beautiful Disaster.
I am reminded of a passage in Samuel where God was appointing Samuel to choose the next King from one of the sons of Jesse. Samuel, starting with Eliab, believed that this young man must be "it" because he was so handsome, but God had other plans...
1 Samuel 16:6-7
6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab, and he thought, "Surely the Lord has appointed this person standing here before him."
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, "Don't look at how handsome Eliab is or how tall he is, because I have not chosen him. God does not see the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart."
The key here being that Samuel was so busy trying to look at what was tangible (right in front of him) that he didn't take the time to see things through God's eyes. Thanks be to God in his great mercy that he knows our heart's cry. He knows how many hairs are upon our heads. Basically he knows EVERYTHING about us.
God gives us mounds of grace to work on the "clutter" we carry around in our lives. Whether it be tangible or not. He loves broken vessels. He wants to restore them & fill them up to overflowing so that we can pass some of the overflow unto to other broken vessels that long to be filled up with a genuine and true love that only God can provide.
It is my sincere privilege to have a relationship with the one and only true God and call Him my father and for Him to extend His arms out to me and call me His precious daughter. For truly I say to you, I am a daughter of the King ♥
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