Carol's Hawaii lessons

OK, so I wasn't going to get involved in all this blogging stuff, but I am always filling my friends' e-mail inboxes with my weird insights, so have decided to just go ahead and start adding to this blog myself! Mostly because while we were in Hawaii, I went with a ton of stuff on my heart that was just bogging me down and hindering me from having a consistently good attitude!

We stayed at the Turtle Bay Resort on Oahu and it was beautiful! And very restful. We did so many fun things, and expereinced pretty much every kind of weather during our short week.

One thing I noticed as we walked around though, was that even though we were there to try to slow down and just enjoy the sites, we continually found ourselves speed walking! We would laugh and remind ourselves that we were on vacation and that we should slow down and relax! So, we would slow down, only to find about ten minutes later we were walking fast again. This so parallels my walk with the Lord sometimes. I recognize something as being His will, so I hurry to make it happen before His perfect time is right. I try to run ahead of God and when I do, I suddenly find myself feeling pretty alone...I have to stop and turn around and see what God is up to! Usually I discover that I am missing out on what He is doing in my life presently, because I am so focused on the future! If I don't stay in step with Him, I miss out on not only what He may be doing in my life and my current situations, but also what He might be working out in somebody else's life, which I could be celebrating along with Him! And I might even miss out on His call to join Him in what He is doing!

Galatians 5 tells us over and over to walk in step with the Holy Spirit...not ahead of Him or behind Him or off on some human rabbit trail, but in step with Him! The lesson for me was that my faith doesn't have to be FAST, but steady, in surrendered obedience to Him. And I don't get so out of breath that way!