Busyness pause;)

Okay..... life is busy right now.... getting ready to go back to school... planning for new lessons in ballet and piano... fun times with friends... unexpected  2 week trips to faraway cities... now this morning it's slowed a little bit. And I need to remember... need to open my Bible.. meditate on the words.. not just breeze through because I'm in a hurry to check email or get on to something more important.. spend some time praying for the lost... listen for God's voice in the quietness. 7am, why am I awake now? I don't know why.... sometimes I'm just excited about life.. it's so interesting and in the mornings I find a freshness... an eagerness to live, breathe, and explore this world. But I have to remind myself... don't be so busy, so caught up in today and now, that you forget to look... look from the comfort and entertainment of reading google plus on your screen... the enjoyment of lazy rainy mornings watching little house .... and look to him. He's here. Jesus is with me and he wants to talk... wants to commune and hear my thoughts and troubles... help, advise, and discipline me. Oh I know this... yes and I'm eager to learn. But I'm more eager to shut my Bible, turn the light on and climb down the ladder in a hurried" Well, I prayed for 1 minute and read my bible for 5 minutes so I"m okay." way. Today, I need to remember.. go back to Jesus's words... he wants devotion and love and if I'm losing this love, I should stop... think...  repent.. ask for it back pray diligently. If I would only ask.. oh.. what I could see... ask Jesus to open the eyes of my heart.. I'll see him there... for real.. standing where he always does in my bedroom.. on the rug by my closet.. in his white robe and sandals.. with an inviting smile... " Come, Drink, be filled." he says. He holds out his hand and I want to willingly accept.. today.. now.. this moment. Because life is for him and because of him and I don't want to run on empty.. I want each and every day to be with him and for him.
 This just  reminded me of a great song by bethany dillon that encourages me  so much.  enjoy;)