I woke up late today, again. It appears to become a normal routine for me, waking up late. I simply sleep through my alarm for some odd reason. It blows my mind as to how some days I will and some days I dont, yet if someone across the house makes the floor creak, Im wide awake.
Well anyway, I dressed in a hurry and ran out the door to class. As my day went along I took part A of my test for Sight Singing and Ear Training (part b. is wed.) and I waited for a friend to get out of class. I nearly waited another forty minutes before she was released. Holy Poop! Take forever why don't you? However, I went along with my day, with this awkward tension and ended up at home attempting to mow our lawn with my roommate Eric. We have a very large yard b.t.w.
What had happened was that someone had made a "threat" that the mayor was coming to visit our house because our yard was in violation of city codes. We had mowed the front part of our yard recently (which was the easier half) but we never have gotten to the rest. The grass was a bit larger than stomache high and it was a pain in the butt to mow with a push-mower and weed-eater. The church we work for has a riding mower that we're allowed to use but for some reason wouldn't start. And yes, it did have gas in it.
After two hours of attempting to mow/weed-eat we hadn't but barely got a small portion of the yard done. After prayer and must frustration Eric and I attempted to start the mower and after jumping the battery, it started up. The mowing job became much easier until Eric ran over a pipe sticking out of the ground in which I had to lift the mower vertical so that he could pound our where it had bent the undercarriage. During that lifting I grabbed a very hot muffler. It burned pretty good. But with much attempt around 7:45 we had a finished yard. We had started around 3:30 that afternoon. Talk about a lot of hard work.
I later went to my mom's house for dinner where I realized this. It took someone threating to have the mayor come back to check our yard's length in order for us to actually do what was the right thing. We were frustrated becasue we had to actually do it and change our plans in order to do this task. However, when in fact this is what was needed to have been done much earlier becuase it was our responsibility. In our own faith we do this so many times. We are supposed to keep up with our responsibility against sin or just regular life and when we ignore that sometimes God will place a threat there. Look at Israel. How many times did God talk about turning them over to their sin (which did happen eventually) and destroy them? Numerous but they, for the most part, returned to Him. That is what I noticed.
Why did it take a threat in order for us to accomplish something that is/was our responsibility? It in fact was part of our agreement with the house. Take care of the kids, our utilites, & our yard, but we were welcome to use their mower if needed. We seemed to do two of those well, but completely forgot and forsake our other responsibility. Those were the three tasks we were given to us. Simple no? Yet, we allowed other things to take the place of our duties and lose our priorities.
Even though it looks amazing to have the yard cut and done and have all this open feild, it also looks like poop. The dead grass in piles around the yard and it just really could have been done better. As exciting as it is to get the job done, it is a constant reminder of how much better we could have done.
Thank you Lord for giving me the understanding to see your message in the midst of my frustration and stubborness. I pray that you allow for us to not lose sight of our spiritual goal and expectations that you bestow upon me. Please give us all the desire and passion for your will that you desire us to have. Thank you for not giving up on us when we needed a threat but that you gave us mercy and your Son in order to forgive us of our so many wrongs.
With all I am,
Gary Michael "Tex" Rule
"Let me tell you a mystery: We wont all rest, but we will all be changed." 1 Cor15:51
"This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewarts of the mysteries of God." 1 Cor4:1
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