Business Is A State Of Mind

As everyone is quarantined in their houses and we aren’t allowed to go out, people are completing projects, organizing life and house, repainting, remodeling, reading, binge-watching tv and Netflix (seriously, I just started The Crown and I am hooked).

I am in ministry and this time, this Corona quarantine has not led to my slowing down, it has led to my kicking it into high gear (as if I wasn’t already there). Ministry kicked in, problems needed to be solved, meetings were now virtual, but the pace didn’t slow down. 

Then there is all of humanity and society telling me to dig deep, be still, try new things, I feel as if my head has been all over the place and unsure of what I really ought to be spending my time doing. 

Do I work?

Do I rest?

Do I run?

Do I clean?

Do I create new content?

The list is endless, and that was when it hit me, 

Business is a state of mind

Here I am, completely quarantine in my home and I end EVERY day completely exhausted from all the work I have done. 

I think I am missing it. I think I am missing the point of all of this. I think I am supposed to be slowing down, figuring out a new rhythm to my life that I can keep in place after we are “set free”.

It’s got me thinking, am I TRULY slowing down?

Slowing down doesn’t mean just not going out to meetings and having events all the time. 

Slowing down is a state of mind.  

Slowing down means that you have time to have one complete thought all the way through till it ends.

Slowing down doesn’t mean that we fill out “extra” time with more Netflix, Facebook, social media, youtube, tv...you get the point.

Slowing down means putting down.

~ Putting down the phone and just being in whatever space you are currently in (not saying phones can’t bring people together, but if I am being 100% honest, I don’t like how much I am on mine)

~ Putting down the to-do list long enough to take the time to really ask, what actually has to get done?

~ Putting down the expectation that each day has to look productive in the way it always has.

~ Putting down the expectation that we can push our way through.

~Slowing down means putting down my pride and schedule for the day and asking God what HIS schedule is and if He will teach me how to do this dance of life with Him leading

I confess that I have done an excellent job of staying busy, but let me tell you, NO MORE!

I am planting my flag and saying that His plan is greater, time with Him sweeter and His directions are the only ones I want to follow.

This will look different for everybody, so don’t “should” all over others, pray they reach conclusions with God for themselves.

It has taken me three weeks to get to this place of realization and desiring change in my day and rhythm. 

As for me and my life, it’s taking on a new rhythm...