Procrastination and the Morning After

So yesterday was a crazy day!! I woke up initially at 5 a.m. but then instead of getting up when I should have, I laid there... 2 minutes turned into an hour and I was late for 6 a.m. prayer. Darn!! However, prayer was very good and encouraging. There is just something to waking up early in the morning and starting the day by submitting everything to the authority of Christ. Something changes in my spirit when I decide to obey like that... I love the joy that comes... the beauty of the morning.

I had procrastinated pretty bad on a project for my department. I had an advertisement board I needed to put together for a festival we are doing this weekend. I thought I had till Saturday to do it so I kept saying, oh one more day... one more day won't hurt. Stupid! Then yesterday morning I woke up and thought to myself, "Oh no! The festival starts tomorrow. This board has to be completed by today!!" So I worked my tail off yesterday translating things into French with the help of my computer and coworker Sterling. What a blessing he is! And what a challenge to translate things into French. That is one of my biggest challenges. Learning and understanding Creole and bits of French. I am encouraged however, because every day I understand and remember more. I hope that it continues to grow!! So, anyway... I finally finished the board with the help of Lisa, Cheryl and Sterling around 7 p.m. last night. It took forever!! But it's done and it looks beautiful!!! And then after all that stress, at about 9 last night Lisa came to me and told me that they postponed the festival a day because of the hard rain the day before!! I nearly burst into tears! But at least it's done and I did my part! Go figure though! I mean, really!!

I was so grateful for Jess last night, as I am increasingly grateful every day for her friendship, prayers and love that she shows me. A big sister when all my sisters are far away right now. Thank you Jesus for my friends! Anyway, she let me cry and vent and talk out frustrations with myself and "stuff". It was great... and then we split a special chocolate bar that we got from the Caribbean Market as a treat. It was so wonderful.

Before I went to sleep last night, I asked God to help wake me up this morning so that I could start my day with prayer. He was faithful this morning and I woke up and actually got out of bed. Jess was startled when she heard me roll out of bed because she is always up before 5. I think she was in shock that I really got up. But then so was I! :) It was wonderful. I prayed for a good 40 minutes and worshiped the Lord and then I read my Bible. It was so encouraging this morning. I was thinking and praying for myself and my friends and family and was thinking about how so many times there are parts of our heart and lives that seem dead and lifeless. And I was praying that God would bring life to those parts of our hearts... praying that God would stir up and wake up our Spirit to hear his voice and to experience the reality of Jesus. To truly seek and pursue God and allow Him to have his way in our day, in our lives, in this World. And I was struck by the awesomeness of our God.

Wow. that is a lot of talk... now I will try and go live it. How about you? Blessings!