What’s really important
The other day I stopped to take the kids to a park to play with friends.
Oh, I had a hundred things I should have been doing. Yet, I have learned, that no matter what, the kids are first. They have energy to burn!
I bent over at the park to pick up a few pecans. I love them and had eaten them at that park before…
Now, for the last two weeks, I have been doing what the health food world calls a “cleanse.” I’m eating healthy. No sugar, no bread or starches. I feel amazing doing this!
I cracked the pecan and bit into it, expecting to be satisfied.
YUCK! I spit it out! The absolute worst taste ever!
I could taste the chemicals—the pesticides in the pecan. No joke! They literally had that taste like I just ate a squirt of bug spray!
God speaks to me in a weird way. He talks to me through little things. That still small voice says to me,
“What is in you? Are you packaged nice on the outside and yucky on the inside? What is it that you could be full of that you shouldn’t be?”
Ouch! There are things that I have been working on that are not fun. I do spend my time on the things that are making everything look great on the outside…yet, inside, I could use some cleaning. I am glad He forgives us when we are wrong and then equips us to change!
I am thankful that God calls these things to my attention. It’s because of these little things that I realize what is really important. My time with God, my time with my children and my husband.
I still love pecans. I’ll just not eat from that park anymore!