I thought of Paul today

My granddaughter Skyy Julia is 17 months old and is fiercely independent in all her ways. I keep telling my daughter Richelle she’s gotten double for her trouble with this child. Skyy does not respond to the word no, stop, you can’t do that, you’re going to get hurt, you’re going to time out, or you’re going to get your hands spanked -but only for a moment. At 17 months old she knows no limits!

Yesterday, was the first time this week I’ve been able to keep my door closed all day and work. As I look for office space I’m working from my home office getting my new business up and running. The agreement with my daughter is that when my door is closed I’ m working and they are to operate as though I’m not home. It actually has been working pretty well until this week when Skyy learned to open the door by herself. Now I have to actually lock her out to get anything done.

This morning I was thinking how much writing I would get done and work accomplished as soon as I get my office away from my home. I thought about being on an island somewhere over looking a beautiful sea of water and the words just pouring out of me for my book. Maybe you’re like me an in a place where you are waiting for all the stars to line up and then you will start walking in your destiny.

As these images started to control my thoughts the Apostle Paul came into my spirit. He was able to write two thirds of the New Testament and most of his writings done while he was in prison. Not only was he fighting the physical space of his confinement but I’m sure warring with his mind. At the time of his captivity one of the prison’s he spent most of his time in was an actual hole in the ground with a small opening for light. As this one image flooded my mind I was overcome with a feeling of “how dare you.”

You can start right where you are today walking in those things you know you have been called to do. If it’s your time and season you can start even if what you see in the natural looks like chaos. Can you imagine what it must have been like for Paul to encourage himself each day and then be content in every circumstance? How shallow I am to think that I need this idyllic situation to push me towards releasing the wonderful treasures that God has stored up in me through this journey.

Are you waiting for the perfect moment to tell someone you love them, give someone a hand up, write that best seller, go get your child back, quit that job you hate, start a business, ask someone to forgive you, forgive someone who hurt you 10 years ago? If you’re one of those waiting today, all you have to do is remember the work of Apostle Paul. I know many of you will read this with a religious spirit and say to yourselves why she didn’t use Jesus as the example. After all He did made the ultimate sacrifice.

I thought of Paul today because he was the example Holy Spirit used for this situation and for this purpose. “Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have,” Phil 4:11 NLT