I
place Anna in the “Caroline” shopping cart for Special Needs adults. The
chair is designed so that she sits facing me and I buckle her in. We begin
our shopping. Whoever created this chair, understands my girl! You see facing
away from me means Anna will look at everyone and everything else and whatever
Anna sees, that’s what she wants. Someone makes eye contact with her, and she
smiles and reaches for them. Shopping
while trying to keep Anna from grabbing people does not help me get my job
done. Sometimes it stops it altogether!
We are not all that different
from her; we have our own special needs. We easily get overstimulated, wanting
things that we really do not need. Our focus naturally turns towards others
when comparing ourselves to each other. We tend to look to physical relationships to
meet our emotional needs, instead of going to the ONE who desires our direct
attention. We end up doing a lot of nothing and feel lacking even though all we
need God provides. When will we learn that true living is found in Christ, not
in the things we place in our cart? We
need to sit more often in our own “Caroline Cart”, face to face with Jesus.
I hear my Heavenly Father say,
turn around and take your seat. Face me and Focus. We will get a lot more done,
when you begin to turn your eyes to ME. All the things you think you want, are
not what you need right now. Find that place of gratitude and contentment right
where you are. And at the end of the day, a task that would have been a pain,
can become a treasured moment by simply focusing on HIM.
"You will keep him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." Is
26:3-4
"God is most glorified in us when
we are most satisfied in Him.” John Piper
"And He raised us up together
with Him [when we believed], and seated us with Him in the
heavenly places, [because we are] in Christ Jesus, and
He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the
immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in
[His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption]." Eph
2:6,7
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