The Purging ...

.... has left the building.

Yep, I don't think I purged one thing yesterday.
It's gone.
It leaves as quickly as it hits me.
Literally.

I did get a couple of things organized, but nothing got tossed.
Dang.
I still have a couple of rooms to hit.
I may head into one of them today and open up a cabinet or two to see if the urge comes back.  Maybe it's just lurking around outside .... resting.

Anyway, yesterday was a good day.  After I blogged I had a great "quiet time" with God.
Really great.

It's funny that we call it "quiet time" (or maybe that's just me?!).  I mean, I guess it is quiet .... at least from the outside.  But God was not quiet at all!  He was doing a lot of talking and pointing out verses and readings to me.  He kept telling me, over and over, that I'm right where I'm supposed to be, doing right what I'm supposed to be doing, making the decisions that's He's led me to make.
 
It feels so freeing to know exactly what He's telling me to do and to just .... do it.  I haven't always been so close to Him that I knew His will for me.  I remember more times of feeling so blind and wishing He'd send down a billboard with my next steps written on it!  So far .... no billboards.

But it's ironic that we want God to make His will clear to us, but yet how much time do we spend getting to know Him?  It's just like making an acquaintance into a friend.  When you barely know someone, you don't know their likes or dislikes.  You don't know how they feel about things, what makes them tick.  You have to spend time with someone to become friends.  Especially really good friends.  You have to spend time with someone in order to know them.

God's no different (well, at least no different in that way).  We have to spend time with Him in order to get to know Him.  The more time we spend, the more we learn about Him.  The more we learn about Him, the clearer His will is for us.  It's really not as difficult as we humans seem to think it is.  It's just .... time.
And I don't know about you, but I can be very selfish with my time.  I don't think that I'm alone in that, especially in these days of such fully scheduled days .... and evenings, for kids and parents.  It's an epidemic, this "lack of time".
But all it really takes is just carving out a few minutes.  Just a few.  Starting with just 5.  Surely we all have 5 minutes somewhere in the day .... even if we have to lock ourselves in the bathroom to get them!
The really intriguing thing is .... that once you start to make those few minutes .... you'll find that before long, your 5 minutes has turned into 20 .... and you didn't even realize it.   The more time you spend with God .... the more you want to spend time with Him.  Really.
And isn't it interesting that we sure can make time for the things we want to do?   :)

Please don't get me wrong .... I am not perfect at this.  Heck, I'm not even consistently good at it.  And I know that there will still be times in my life when I won't feel as close and won't know what to do.  But the thing is .... when those times come, I'll know why.

Wow .... I had no idea this post was going to go there.  I thought I was just going to do a short post telling you that I'd stopped purging and organizing.
Just another example of how I really never know what I'm going to write about until I sit down at the keyboard .... and start typing.

I thought I was going to tell you that God followed up my time with Him with a phone call, confirming everything He's been telling me.
Wait .... that totally sounds like God called me on the phone, doesn't it?
Ha!!   I WISH!!!
No, the phone call was from someone formally asking me to take a huge (potentially huge) position with an organization.
I.
Am.
So.
Excited!

Of course I said yes.  I mean, if I hadn't I think God really might have called me on the phone to ask me if I truly was that dense.

I wish I could tell you more ..... kind of mean, isn't it?  I'm sorry, but we're still solidifying things and putting structure to something that hasn't existed until now,  so I'm trying very hard to be patient .... and to not call each and every one of you!

Just know that it's great, God led me here and that I think it will be life-changing.

Wow (again) .... I just stopped and thought about those 2 last words, "life-changing".
What, in the last 3 years, has NOT been life-changing for me???
So let me add a couple of words to that sentence:
Just know that it's great, God led me here and that I think it will be life-changing .... in a good way.
No, in a wonderful way.
:)

Thank you, L & D, for a fun evening last night and for inviting me over for a very good dinner, and even better conversation.
I'm so glad we got to spend time together.  :)

OK.  That's all for now.  I'm sure you're all very tired of reading anyway.
Take a break.
Oh ..... and Happy Wednesday, Peeps.
:)