Spending Time with God is Important

         This isn't going to be a very long one. Hopefully though, I can fit 2 long ones in this weekend sometime. I just wanted to let you all know where I am in life and what God has made me see again.  Isn't it strange how we get off God's Track and we don't even know it or think it is that important until we get back on it? I have had that feeling this week.
          Last week at work got to me because it was Spring Break and it seemed like everyone was on it but a few people. We are short-handed to start with and it was just stressful. I broke down crying at church Saturday night and then came home and had a crying fit instead of being with my friends after church. I haven't broke down crying in church for awhile. In fact, I can't remember the last time I did. It has to be in the first year that I moved to AR at least. After church, I did stay in my car and talked to a friend for a little bit after church about what was bothering me until I calmed down enough to drive home.
         I discovered something Sunday after a good night's rest that I needed to start doing again. That something was getting back into God's Word or at least doing devos. again like I use to. I had a jounal of devos. I did every morning about this time last year and I guess in the year as it went on I stopped doing them. I read a little of them just flipping through some of the pages and I felt like the devos were right what I needed so I thought to myself I should get started back on these every morning.
         I took the challenge this week and it has made such a different. It been a busy week at work with everything going on but at the same time I've had enough strength, courage, and energy to get through everything and still have some left over, which is strange. Nothing changed at work if anything it only get worse but looking to God before I went to work made all the different. It is strange but great that something as little as a devo can get you looking to God for the rest of the day. I even found myself saying when things did get crazy, "God help me through this" or "I need patentice, Daddy". God really does hear those little prayers I learned this week. Sometimes more then our long, wordy prayers.
          I'm just doing a lot better and all it took was doing some devos and resting in God before the start of the day. My work is getting easier because of this. Now let's see how this can help my friendships out. It also helps to have a friend check on you the first 2 days of the week to see how you are doing and how your day went. That was nice too. It has been awhile since I have had a friend that did that. It just gives me the reassuance that someone does care and that maybe if it doesn't seem like I'm on the right path now. I'm at least getting there slowly but surely. Things take time to heal and I just have to respect that and give it to God again and again.  It wouldn't hurt if we as humans could see that and do that every once in awhile. It would make life a lot easier and joyful for us now and in the long run.