Markley's Blog

Since the beginning of this year It has been an overload of information that I have had to absorb.  If you have read my previous blogs over the last two months you should already know where I am coming from.  As you know it started off with a church play.  I had lines to memorize.   Then putting the mind to work in a way that it hasn’t had to work –  the news of losing the job was another comprehension the mind had to decipher.  Then, a new job.  Testing… getting to know new people… and a whole new routine.  You realize how complacent, and as you can say hum drum, your daily life was. ( Not complaining, just making a note). My whole morning routine was turned upside down.  I had farther to travel, so less time to do the things I like to do before I leave for work.  New responsibilities on the job, working 12 hours a day to start, than a new job within the job.  More testing!!

We get so use to not using our minds because everything is the same every day.  Drive the same route, see the same people at the same place, as you pick up the morning paper with the morning java jump.  Turn on the same lights, turn on the same machine, and do the same thing the same way Monday thru Friday.  Over the first part of this year my mind has been revitalized and stimulated in a way such as I haven’t seen since my days of public education.

Then there is our budget to re-work, due to the change in the amount of funds from the new job.  Through the summer there is always the wish list, to do list and the must do list.  That, with starting my small business all over again, this has been a year of first, lasts, and never again.  We sometimes need to be shaken a little.  Knock the dust off and clear the cobwebs from the routine and maybe see the path we are on with a different view.

God is always working and maybe He sees that we may need a loving push, a tap on the shoulder, a refreshing view, or maybe we need that shaking and cobweb clearing.  Things happen for a reason and maybe, just maybe, when we and our day have become so routine that we don’t see Him in our everyday walk, something happens to make us remember it’s all in His hands and all will work to bring Him Glory.  So when the routine is bumped, changed, revamped and your taken on a whole new path in life, just remember He is there and has walked that path already, and will walk it again. This time, right by your side.