Tax season....

Tax season....

I never did the taxes all the time I was married...my husband did them or we had an accountant do them...

Well, here I am almost 50 years later gathering info for the accountant, answering questions, etc...
January 1st hits and I really panic, because the job seems gigantic, insurmountable....so many forms, so many reports, so many paper trails...it hasn't gotten any simpler being a widow...

The last few weeks, I have been back and forth between various people, connecting one with another, making sure that each has what the other needs or connecting them one with another, finding missing documents and reports, scanning, forwarding, etc, etc, etc...I want to obey all the rules and regulations ...

This am I was reading the portion of Numbers (very fitting for tax season) and had to chuckle ...they had seen the promised land, seen the lushishness of it, the fruit, the abundance, but were scared of the giant people and felt little in the sight of them...just like I feel when I see the piles of papers, files, reports readying for the accountant..."it is too big", I cry...until I step back and take one step a a time, conquering one item at a time in my land of plenty...I don't  want to spend 40 years in the desert because of my complaints and unbelief...

Thank YOU even for tax season...the giant job but, bit by bit, it is worth conquering... Take away my fears...

They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large.
We even saw descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan. ”
Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”
And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
Numbers 13:26-33