Come Join the Carnival!!

Ever feel like your life is one big carnival, and you just want the show to close?

There's the emotional rollercoaster of hormones (either PMS or menopause, take your pick) that hits every month, sending us scrambling in the couch cushions for that M & M that we dropped a few days ago.

Then the Tilt-a-Whirl of raising kids...you spin at high speeds keeping up with their schedules, homework, friends, recreation...and then the bottom drops out when one goes astray into the wilderness of the world.

The merry-go-round of housework, meals, shopping, laundry....housework, meals, shopping, laundry....housework, meals, shopping, laundry......breakfast is over and you hear "Mom, what's for lunch..." "Didn't I JUST wash this shirt??!!" "What happened to all the clean towels??"

Ahhh, the bumper cars of church life, home life, kids' lives, husband's needs, personal needs, work issues...when they bump and nudge at one another...there's just nothing quite like it.

And don't forget the ferris wheel of love...you never know when you're going to get stuck on that thing and not move for hours...days...weeks...months.

Seriously, life gets complicated. We get busy. We get stressed, overcommitted, overtired, and we feel underappreciated.

What's the solution?

We must learn to rest in Him. To take time to pour our hearts out to the Father, and then to let Him pour His heart back into us.

It's time to climb out of the madhouse and get back in the funhouse...a little Godly perspective goes a long way.

Take this self check: 1) How's your Bible reading? 2) How's your prayer life? 3) When's the last time you consciously thanked God for your blessings? 4) When's the last time you just sat on the Father's lap and let Him lavish His love on you?

No...don't tell me you don't have time. You can't afford to miss this....This is our oasis of sanity amidst a world gone mad....

So step outside the carnival we call our lives, and sit on the bench...take in the sights and sounds of this creation....and soak in the Son.

You can't afford not to. And ya know ya wanna!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Be blessed....and see you at the bumper cars@@!!

Deena