A welcomed interruption

As a mom my life is pretty much interrupted at any point in the day.  I've become pretty accustomed to the fact that one simple task can, and will, take me 5 times longer...unless the kids are sleeping.

Tonight I sat down to blog about something a little lighter than what I have been blogging about. I thought maybe my first two posts were two "heavy" and that maybe I shouldn't be such a Debbie Downer. ;)   With a quiet house I sat at my computer and opened up Pandora. I clicked on Matt Redman and was bought to tears by the first song that came up.   The song "Never Once" came on. Hence my welcomed interruption.  

At the time of my mom's death this was one of her favorite songs. Take a moment to click here and listen to it: "Never Once"

She sang with such love to God.  You could see it on her face.  A woman who believed every word of this song.  A woman who had been through the storms time and time again in her life. She experienced the death countless times in her life. She knew what loss felt like. She knew what it felt like to be lied to, to be left out, to be pushed to the side, to be lonely, to feel like she wasn't meeting the mark.  To think of her singing this song with all her might amazes me. Even with all of those trials she went through her legacy was what she did for others.  Her mission in life was to serve.

As I sat there crying from this realization the next song came on.  "Give Me Your Eyes". Feel free to watch this one as well if you are still with me.  The most important parts of the lyrics are:

Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see

Is that the answer? By keeping our eyes on what other peoples needs are does that help us to get through our own storms? There are people all around us going through such grief and trials but do we see it? Do we give a second thought to it?

My pastor gave a great analogy this past Sunday. He held one hand in front of his face representing our problems. The other hand held a Bible. With the hand full of problems in front of his face he was unable to see anything else, including the hand that held the Bible.  Do we focus too much on our problems instead looking to see who else is hurting around us?

There are times where we grieve. Where we cut ourselves off from the outside world to turn inward. To heal.  Times where we need to examine issues and problems in our own lives.  Those can be times of great growth, healing and change in our lives. But when we aren't going through those times in our lives are we making sure we are reaching out to those that are?

Sorry you missed out on the lighthearted blog that I had planned. But this was a welcomed interruption This series of events tonight that God led me to realize that no matter what storms I go through that first of all, I never walked alone and secondly, there is also a world of hurting people that need to be taken care of just like we do when we are going through our storms.

What would happened if we welcomed interruptions more in our lives? If we stopped focusing on our task at hand and looked for ways to be interrupted by acts of kindness and support for those going through the storms right now?