LOVE DISTRACTIONS!

"Daughter, your faith has healed you.  Go in peace......"Stop wailing," Jesus said, "She is not dead but asleep." - Luke 8:48,52

READ LUKE 8:40-56 TODAY

     The whole family took the annual trek (ok, maybe we've missed it the last three annuals) to prepare Mr. Melton's classroom for the upcoming school year.  It's a day filled with excitement, anticipation and enthusiasm.....until you get started.  And then you realize you haven't put in a lot of thought to where everything should go.  And then you realize there is just a ton of junk here.  And then you realize that all the stuff your kids were supposed to do doesn't work.

     I had this plan where everything would get put where it's supposed to, the whole family would enjoy every second and we'd come out of there with a fully-functional-Fifth-grade classroom.  Not so much.

     And so I got frustrated.  Every time something distracted me from the "goal" I felt a little more frustration setting in.

     You know what wouldn't have been frustrated? Jesus!  Or maybe he was, but He handled it a whole lot better. 

     Check out our two stories today.  He's walking to teach some folks and a lady has the audacity to try to get Him to heal her.  He's on another journey and someone wants to take time out of His busy day to heal his dead daughter.  C'mon!

      Guess what I just realized?  Maybe the reason Jesus handled distractions so well is that He realized the importance of each situation.  He knew how much this stuff mattered to this lady and this man. 

      I just heard this at Community Christian Church "If it matters to you, it matters to me."  They were talking about God's relationship to us, but why should our relationship with other people be any different.

      We're gonna get distracted from our "goals."  But, maybe if we can remember it's not our "goals" that are important, it won't be so frustrating.  We might even start treating people like Jesus did.