The Narrow Path

  The narrow path is not the easiest path to follow. As I go through this intense time of growth, I realize the new words my wonderful supervisor taught me, SELF CARE, are some of the most important words to learn to do, when you are going into ministry.  For me learning to take real time off, without worrying about what I have to do the next day, or for me what I need to do for the next week, is tough.  I get blinders on and all I can see is the narrow path.  I forget that God has given me things in my life that will not always be there and I need to take the time to notice and praise God for these things.  I know I have taken the narrow path out of context here and am using it in a different manner, yet I have realized that I have only been looking at life through my schedule.  What is due next? What do I need to do next?  What is expected out of me next?  This is a narrow view of what God has placed before me during this time in my life.  I forget about the other gifts I have in my life.  My children, my husband, and my gift of photography.  Each picture I use in this blog will only be pictures I have taken, so that I may share not only my thoughts with others, but my gift of having the photographers eye.  I will also do this to remind myself to get out and take new pictures, because for me this is when I truly feel like I am doing something just for myself.  Self Care.  Two simple words yet so hard to do.  I need to keep in mind that life is to short, things of this world come and go, I need to not waste those things God sets before me, I need to grab hold of each gift and treasure them the way God expects me to.  I must eagerly desire each and every gift God has given me, knowing they are given to me through His grace.