A Thorn Among Roses

so about pausing...remember? if you don't, you should def go and read THIS. i totally love how god speaks in and through the normalcy of every day life, when we take time to pause and see it. let me tell you, i love my family, my blackberry, my laptop, my blog, my friends, my hooptie. i love all kinds of stuff...and they get a lot of time and attention because, honestly, they are in front of me and i pay them attention. {a good ring tone can really go a long way, too} god talked to moses in another passage of scripture...it's the infam ous burning bush passage. i love how even though moses was leading the life of husband, sheep herder, son-in-law, etc, that he was still stuck in the mundaneness of it all and had not found time to hear from god. remember, the words in exodus 3... "Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mount ain of God. There the angel of...

i have been teaching in the ms the last few weeks on taking time to pause... {i also love barns and photography and i love that little icon i made up there...super fun} it's post-christmas and with the last number of weeks, i could really enjoy some pause time. i feel like i lost myself somewhere in early december and i past me up again just after the new year. i could use some "pause time." i mean, i pause...i pray, i think, i read, i even nap every now and again. but there's this thing about pausing that i have discovered. you have to totally BE in the pause before it works. go with me on this one...have you ever been present but not really been there? you know, you are hearing the words that are being said but you are not listening. sometimes we leave our emotions and our spiritual self far away from the physical self...and sadly, i do that when i'm stressed. god wants way more than that...that's why he told moses, "come up to the mountain and sta...