5 Ways to Stay Connected #5

So we all know the flu is going around. It was no different for the safe mountains of Colorado. At some point all through the week someone was on the couch. Out of the fourteen of us in the house, you could always find someone not up to par and needing a dose of ibuprofen.

Poor things would just lie around and look all sad and what-not. They would just wait and wait for something to change. A turn. A moment of, "Ah, I feel better." Inevitably, they would rally and on with the vacation they would go.

Somehow, I was spared from any kind of illness, other than a bit of "How high are we?" tummy ache! I didn't have to endure waiting for Tylenol to kick in so I could go back into town. But, spiritually, it was a different story. I was getting sick and no earthly pill could snap me out of it.

I've told you that by the time I got home from my vacation, God seemed distant and I was a wreck.

I knew it.
He knew it.

By Sunday, JT knew it.

By Tuesday, my friends knew it.

I had done the first two things: talk and listen. I was in rest mode with sleeping better. I had a profound sense that my friends were praying for me when I could not, I was left with the final way to get back closer to my God:

Wait

That's it. Not far from the art of resting is the art of waiting. Again, our spirits don't respond to a timer, a button, or a click of a mouse. We are human, organic, complicated, mysterious beings who serve and love an even greater organic, complicated, and mysterious Being. Even though He is all these things, His desire to pursue and heal us is as real as the breath you are taking now.

Technology is quick and easy, but the things of the Spirit are to be experienced, tended to, and waited upon. Not in the sense of inactivity, like I said before, but a humble awareness that God is working regardless of how we feel. In our scattered state, we still have to humble ourselves to Him and wait. We must somehow fight through the muck, sit on the edge of the pit sometimes, and wait. Crazy thing is, we'll look up and we won't even be near the pit anymore.

He's that good.

Allow yourself, and Him, time to restore your soul. Waiting is an art form. Practice it well.

I am confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:13, 14

Just so you'll have them:
1. Talk
2. Listen
3. Rest
4. Pray
5. Wait

Keep these five things active and you'll find your connectivity will be active as well. When you find you've lost track, kick these back into gear, and well, wait. :)