December is a month of giving...really,every month should be a month of giving but that's another post. There are so many ways we can give. Money, material items, and our time, are a few ways. Time is one that is usually the hardest to give up especially this time of year. December is an exhausting month most years. Between Christmas parties, family gatherings, and shopping for the perfect gifts added to the everyday hustle and bustle, we find the days flying by and our best intentions of giving our time are lost. I am like anyone else. There are days that I think there just isn't any more of me to go around! I am thankful for my gifts and abilities that allow me to help others. But when I find myself mentally, emotionally and physically drained, I find myself asking, who is going to help me?! Then I'm still and I hear the words, "Your strength is in me. I will give you rest." Before I know it, I have a day or a few hours of quiet that opens up in my schedule, or a day of just fun with friends or family, or a song plays on the radio, or someone says just the right words. He gives me the rest I need and the encouragement to my heart and soul that makes me see that in Him I am stronger than when I am on my own. Jesus often separated himself from his followers for "alone time." He spent this time with His Father, recharging and reflecting....we have this example of how to handle our weariness, stress, and frustration. Yet we just keep grumbling and working for ourselves and depend on our own strength rather than the strength of the one who created us to serve.
In Him, I am more then me.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. – Galatians 6:9
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