Well, jet-lag hit!  My post yesterday told you about going to the school district which I did.  I got home a little after 1 pm thinking I’d sleep for a couple hours–well, 20 mins was all there was.  My body was exhausted but my mind was whirling and there was no stopping it.  Our grandson and girlfriend came out for dinner and afterwards I went to bed by 8:30 pm.  I awoke at 11:30 pm ready to charge into the day which I knew wasn’t going to work.  I got up for a hour or so and finally about 1:00 was able to sleep until 4:30 am.  OK, that’s enough for the pity party.

In the two weeks being gone I lost track of all the things I do here.  Yesterday, throughout the day, I was continuously getting reminders of things I’m committed to doing or things I will be doing in the weeks ahead.  I found myself swimming into a mess.  In the mental state of jet-lag I found myself quickly sinking.  This morning as I was taking all this to God, He simply reminded me of what I say to others all the time from the Serenity Prayer:  “take one day at a time, one moment at a time….”  Just hearing that in my head made me relax.  I was bombarded with individual meetings with those who want to talk–there is one this morning at 10:00 am, the choir rehearsal tomorrow morning, quartet practice, Celebrate Recovery meetings and needs, Conquer commitments along with family connections and grandkid games to attend.  And, these didn’t include the work I’ve committed to do in the next two months.  All these things I love, but Satan was using them to throw me into a helpless state while I was physically and mentally weak.

In my devotions this morning I read:  “Jesus teaches us in Mark 3:27 that we mush bind the strong man if we want to plunder his house.  The strong man represents the devil.  Do not ever become passive as a Christian and forget that Jesus instructs us to take authority over and bind the enemy.”  That was the state I was in yesterday afternoon.  Satan was attacking me and I had momentarily lost my grounding due to my lack of sleep.  I’m awake now and reconnecting with the tools God has given me already.  We don’t need to stay in the mindset of a loser as Satan would want us to.  God has provided a way of escape even in what we think is a “helpless state”.  Onward we go with The Holy Spirit within and Christ at the helm.