When ever I am sick and tired of  being sick and tired I know just what to do God I go to you. I need to spend time with God when I am well and full of energy too.

I  Love Thee

How loving you are O God.

You listen to all that I say.

How wonderful you are O God.

Ready to help me each day.

You never grow tired or weary of  your children coming to you.

Even if  they constantly seem broken when they come you are faithful to see them through.

Today all is well with me.

I come just to say I love Thee.

Energizer Battery

Help I need an energizer battery or a maid or something! Sometimes I wake up and I am so tired I feel like I could sleep for a week. Even so I continue on with my housewife day just as if  I had slept for a week. I know if  I were to sit too long after breakfast my day would be shot, because I would give in to my tired side and do nothing for the rest of the day. I find that plunging right into my work is best. It seems as soon as I do I get so busy I don't have time to think about being tired until I sit down for lunch. Then after lunch I force myself to plunge in again, then I get busy don't notice how tired I am until I set down to dinner. Hurray! after dinner I get to rest right up to the time I go to bed. I don't wake up tired every day just some days. Sometimes in my Christian walk I feel like that. I feel so tired like an exhausted swimmer who is about to drown because they can't swim another stroke. But I refuse to give up I plunge in by first calling on God for help, energy, and strength. Then I kind of do my version of stopping the world and getting off for awhile. I do this by taking a walk in the woods near where I and as I walk I talk to God about what's on my heart most. I spill out everything to Him fear, anger, frustration, and whatever else comes up. By the time I get back home I am refreshed. Sometimes I take what I call a day of sick leave. My soul is sick when I feel that spiritually tired. So I don't do any house work that day, I treat myself just as if  I am sick. I may or may not get dressed, I may or may not leave my bed, I read, rest, and talk to God a lot. After a day of sick leave I am refreshed and ready to begin again. Sometimes I take what I call a mini vacation. I take the metro bus because I don't drive I go somewhere nice and talk to God over a cup of coffee (I prefer outdoor cafes at the beach for this). Then I window shop talking to God as I wander around about things that are on my mind. I am sure by now people think I am a nut, but I don't care because I need the refreshing of God. It also reminds me that refreshing from the Lord doesn't have to be stiff and formal, it is personal as it should be.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca they make it a spring; the rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength each one appears before God in Zion. Psalm 84:5-7 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, The Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. Isaiah 40:28-29

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