Back to Work

This past week has been wonderful.  My boss gave the staff the whole week off between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.  I wonder if I would become bored if everyday was like this past week.   I did not use the alarm clock to get up.  I did not rush breakfast – meaning  – I did not take a granola bar or take a smoothie to work to eat at my desk for breakfast. I had time to read the Bible, read devotions, and play word games.  I had time to write on this blog. I exercised in the afternoon at the gym with my dear hubby or used exercise tapes. I did not care if I spent over an hour doing something.  I organized my horribly disorganized office.  (It still needs work but I can see progress.) I did the household chores in the afternoon not in the evening. I cooked supper and most importantly, I spent evenings playing games or visiting with family.

Today, I kept on thinking that tomorrow I was back to using that alarm clock to wake up at 5:15 am.  I would need to leave the house at 5:30 am to get to the gym.  I will come home from work at 5:30 pm and do the household chores.  Before I would know it, it would be bedtime and then the cycle starts all over. Anxiety and worry about tomorrow has started to set in.

Part of my anxiety has to be with work. I have a love/hate relationship with it.  I love it because it provides the money I need to pay my bills but I hate it because it makes me feel like all I care about is money. It is really hard because as a CPA money is a big part of the job – I am always accounting for it.

Below are inserts from a short devotion in my inbox.  What is it about – you guess it  …Money…..

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust don’t destroy and thieves don’t break in and steal, because where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Matthew 6:19–21)

It is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Money is dangerous. If you have it and depend on it, it will kill you. If you don’t have it and crave it, it will kill you. Money can kill us, because it reveals our hearts.

If you are looking about for where to be rich, focus on God. He is your great reward. He is your riches. Therefore, laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven would be living in such a way as to maximize God as your treasure. Handle your money in such a way as to show that God, and not money, is your treasure. ”

John Piper

So tomorrow starts the big test.  Will I find time tomorrow to be kind to my family? Will I have time to be kind to others I meet though out the day? Or will I be so wrapped up in work and making money that I do not notice the blessings that God has given to me.

I pray for a good day tomorrow and to just take it one moment at a time.