LIFE AT 60 - WILLING

Good morning all!  This particular post is not necessarily about being 60 or what is happening health wise with me, but maybe it is, since it all seems to be intertwined.  This has been an amazing last 2 weeks.  It all started with a sore throat!  I kinda laugh at it now, but looking back over the last 2 weeks and seeing the working hand of God and how HE orchestrates things totally blows my mind.

You often hear these days about the 6 degrees of separation, and other such things.  I sometimes just blew those off as being "things".  But Im finding out that God puts people in your path, that you may or may not know, that are there either to help your OR be helped.  You just have to be WILLING.  That is my new word.  WILLING!  Are you willing to see that person that is placed there, or do you just walk past them, or around them, or totally ignore them?  What if that person is the exact person God has placed there to pray for your healing, that will be the one whose prayer He answers?  OR what if that person is the one YOU need to pray for or talk to, that God will answer their cry for help, just because YOU took the time to care. You must be WILLING.

Since I have been going thru all these tests, and groping, and touchy feely stuff, I have had to rely on the prayers of others.  HOWEVER in the last week, God has awakened me to a "new" me!  It is all pretty interesting to sit back and watch this happen.  You see, I had been growing pretty "cold" toward things in life, including my spiritual walk.  It happens, though it shouldn't but it sometimes does.  The really cool thing is that all it takes to turn things around, is to turn!  In my case it took a bit more of a nudge.  A sore throat nudge, and the prayers  of more people than I can count!  However this has all created a new awakening in my body, mind and spirit.  An awakening that I honestly have never experienced before.  It has also created in me a compassion for others that I had never had in the past.  If you think about it, compassion is one of Jesus' biggest traits.  Since we are to be like Jesus, should we not have compassion, and lots of it?  I think that might be a good idea!!  Here again, to have compassion we have to be willing.  There's that word again.  I have discovered that really all God wants of us is to be willing.  Willing to do his will.  That does not mean that we cant do other things, but we have to be willing to stop and listen, even when you might be in a hurry.  It means being willing to pray for someone's need, even if you don't know the person.  It might mean willing to give a ride to someone who does not have transportation to get to a Dr appointment or a ride to church,  It might mean being willing to just be there.

The last 2 weeks have been eye opening for me.  It has showed me that I have been selfish, and NOT willing to do a lot of these things.  It showed me that for years, I have thought of myself as being better than others.  It has showed me that I have NOT been WILLING to be willing 100% of the time.  Yes, I have helped others, I have done the good deeds, sometimes to excess, but what Im realizing now, is that I was only doing things that "I" wanted to do, not necessarily what God wanted me to do.  Sometimes they meshed, but other times, only if it fit my schedule or if it was something I really wanted to do.  If you are willing, God can use you, if you are NOT willing, He cannot!  A truth so simple, yet hard to grasp.  If you are willing, things will come your way, and God will bless your life.

All I can say is that I have had a true eye opening experience.  I guess you could call it life changing.

Have an awesome Monday!  Be willing.