Boundaries......
I realized the other day, that I have no " quiet place" except in bed early in the morning anymore..I was doing paperwork all day, all hours, phone ringing, all day all hours.....I was in the office all day all hours ....when I came home, it was the office , a work place all the time...not my home.....I wasn't taking time to relax or play,,,it was all business , responsibilities, form one project to another, one set of forms to another, one email to another, one phone call to another...bank statements, lawyers, accountants, .....no down time....which led to tension, sleeplessness. ......
I don't do crafts, read very little, everything has a purpose, a to do list...no sit down time, veg out time, it is go, go, go, very little laughter, fun...no photography, ....joy time.....even the dog was on the to do list-make sure I walk him......
Little---be still, and know that I am God.....time....
I need to set some boundaries with my time, home, the phone, the business, fun....summer is disappearing .....time is disappearing....and there will just be another to do list...checked off...
help me, Lord, to find that balance, joy , in separating out the times, to make the best use of time, space,
To take time to enjoy life, people that You have put there....not to keep spiraling into more and more to do's, just for more to done's.....
Numbers 34
34 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:
3 “‘Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea, 4 cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon, 5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.
6 “‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
7 “‘For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor 8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad, 9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
10 “‘For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham. 11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.[a] 12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea.
“‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.’”
Psalm 74:17
It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter.
Acts 17:26
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
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