HIT THE RESET BUTTON!!

  This is to all my "busy" people out there.....! (imagine music playing in the background as I say this...) Have you ever been so busy that you can't keep up with yourself? Have you ever put your purse in the refrigerator? Put the eggs in the pantry? Put the salt and pepper shaker in the microwave? Put the ham or turkey you just made your sandwich with in the oven? LOL! These questions might sound crazy..but it's real! For a period in my life I was doing crazy stuff like that. We would find stuff in the strangest places. The kids would laugh at me. Matter of fact when they couldn't find something, they knew where to look! In the kitchen cabinets or the microwave! Funny but not funny!  My mind was all over the place, I was wide open and so busy( and at that time, stressed)  I could barely think straight. Are you walking around snapping at the kids, kicking the dog and find yourself absent minded as all outdoors?  Can't remember stuff. Matter of fact...where are the kids? LOL. TIME TO HIT THE RESET BUTTON. You TOO busy! Get somewhere and SIT DOWN.  Matter of fact....HAVE SEVERAL SEATS.
     I remembered that period of my life this week. It was NOTHING like it used to be ( I wasn't doing all that stuff in the 1st paragraph) but just enough to remind me that it's just time to get it together. It was time to reset.  I'm sure we all have this happen at one time or another. It seemed like the whole month of August was just BUSY. On the heels of that, the kids went back to school. There are orientations, paperwork and I was also dealing with some other personal issues that seemed to come one issue after the next. I had a wonderful labor day weekend but it was also BUSY. It was in the AM before I went to bed for several nights. WHEW. Wonderful for all you that hang like this, but I can't. Not anymore. I wasn't so much as stressed as TIRED. The stress I have learned to leave with God but my behind was TIRED. (the stress part is another blog post)
     Well, earlier this week I had senior night at my daughter's school. Work has been extremely busy and stressful and I was pooped.  As I sat in the auditorium listening to information about senior pictures, rings, classes, financial aid, colleges, meetings, MONEY, I just began to get really agitated. I was already tired and irritable and it felt as if my mind could not absorb anything else. I was shutting down and I knew it.  Ever been there? I wanted to get up and leave but that wouldn't have been right. I pressed to come. This meeting was so important so I just silently sat there and prayed.I  was fighting against snapping on my daughter b/c in my head, she was being irritating. It won't her. It was me. The only thing I heard was "You're tired. You need to SLEEP." Just shut it down. I had been running and I knew I had not had the proper rest and it was catching up with me. For days, all I kept hearing was "sleep". Simple, right? Some people find it hard. As I sat there in that auditorium, all I could think of was sleep and I determined when I got home, that would be "what's up". I wasn't doing ANYTHING but going to bed. I even shut my thoughts down.  It was time to hit the reset button. When I got home, I prepared for bed early and blissfully slept all night long. I woke up this morning feeling refreshed and had a wonderful day. Things did not seem as "hard" to get accomplished and my mind was sharp.
     So, I said all that to say this. If you have a computer and that computer starts tripping, getting hung up, start acting "slow" or just stopped working all together, what do you do? We reboot, We reset, we SHUT IT DOWN. 95% of the time when we bring it back up, it's back to normal.  When God spoke the earth into existence, He even rested on the 7th day!  What makes us think we are any different? What are we pushing toward? What are we trying to do? What are we striving for?  What are we sacrificing in our lives for the sake of a goal? Yes. We are to work toward our goals but God gave us balance and  when we neglect our families, our bodies, our spiritual lives just to
" work" (whether it be at our jobs, our businesses, CHURCH, or anything we've made an idol), we are out of balance. I know about this because I did it for a long period in my life so, I knew the warning signs. Do you know the warning signs that it's time to hit your reset button? A fuse is no good BURNT OUT.