I Choose the Light

God is so good!  Today, I felt myself being pulled, no, pushed, into a funky mood.  Lately, I've just been feeling a bit overwhelmed and off-kilter.

Recent working-related events and personal commitments were about to overwhelm me and I felt a grayness coming over me.  In my head, I was thinking, no, praying, Lord, please don't let me slip into grayness.  I need to see the Light.

And, just like that (snap!), God showed me that while I may have a lot on my plate, I have a lot of help.

• I recently suffered a setback at work.  A major setback.  My boss' reaction was to encourage me and be supportive.  He could have taken a really hard line and been very "un":  un-reasonable, un-sympathetic and un-relenting.  But, he wasn't.
• I'm the editor of my service group's newsletter.  A mass mailing of almost 600 newsletters coincided with an unexpected business trip.  How in the hell am I supposed to mail 600 newsletters when I'm 300 miles away?!  Here's how:  one friend volunteers to pick up everything from the printer and deliver it to my house; another friend volunteers to coordinates a crew to assemble and mail them; my husband couriers assembled newsletters to the post office and picks up more stamps.

Instead of being in a gray, funky mood and feeling overwhelmed, I decided to feel over-blessed:  I have a job I love and a boss who is supportive; I have friends who jump right in and help me; and most of all I have a husband who knows that "love" is an action word.

Matthew 5:16 tells us that we should let our light shine, do good works and God will be glorified.  I wonder if my friends knew it was their shining light and good works that would remind me of God's goodness.  So, grayness, go away from this place!  It is only God's Light that I will see and allow to overtake me.