Wow that full-time-job-during-busy-season really cuts into a girl’s blogging time! It was a particularly difficult this year with some personal stuff going on in addition to the usual crazy work schedule, but I learned a lot.

I learned I am not 40 any more and can’t go indefinitely on 3-4 hours of sleep per night.

I leaned that I have to take some time out for me, or I am of no use to anyone else (so THAT’S why they tell you to put your own oxygen mask  on first in the event of problems on a plane…)

So where is the spirituality in all of this? I was reminded again and again that advice as simple as “be where your hands are” can lend a lot to the sanity department. Clearly many of us do things on a daily basis that nobody could possibly do… but we do it by taking each moment as it comes and doing what is in front of us.

Years ago I read a book called “Too Busy Not To Pray” (by Bill Hybels) and he said (and I’m paraphrasing) that often our problem is that we get to the mountain, and we just look at the mountain and say ‘wow that’s a big mountain, I’ll never get over that one.’ But if we look at GOD instead of the mountain, He moves the mountain for us, or it turns out that it wasn’t really a mountain after all, just a hill that we were viewing from the wrong perspective.

That reading always reminds me of the tightrope walker… he doesn’t watch his feet on the rope – if he did, he would lose his balance – he watches a fixed point in front of him – we need to do the same. When I keep my eyes on God, all else falls into place.

Breathe, focus, eyes on the solution… now THERE is a spiritual message!