At 3am I was lying in bed thinking, I mean worrying about our 2014 fall corn maze.   Yes, I realize it is only January and we don’t open until September.  Ugh.   My husband wanted to discuss it last night and I already have that “ick” feeling.   Why oh why did he have to start talking about it?  My mind is spinning, chewing over different things that happened last fall and now I find myself wide awake.   I kept rehashing different conversations — seeing different guests — remembering the busyness of it all.

Troubled

Guess what my two scriptures were for my morning devotional?

John 14:1-2
Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.  In My Father’s house are many mansions;  if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

Already I found myself being troubled at 3am.

My devotion was written by Sarah Young and is from the book Jesus Calling.   I thought I would share it with you:

Trust is a golden pathway to heaven.  When you walk on this path, you live above your circumstances.  My glorious Light shines more brightly on those who follow this path of Life.  Dare to walk on the high road with Me, for it is the most direct route to heaven.  The low road is circuitous: twisting and turning in agonizing knots.  There the air hangs heavy — and dark, ominous clouds predominate.  Relying on your own understanding will weigh you down.  Trust in Me absolutely, and I will make your path straight.

I guess I have a lot to hand over to the Lord this morning.   I cannot go into this year’s fall season with the attitude and expectation that I had last year.  It is more work than I can explain.  I am grateful for the financial blessing to supplement our income, but the rest … oy!  The business takes over my every waking hour.

I want to find pleasure in our guests enjoying our farm.  I want to get to know some of them like I used to do before it got so busy.  I want to have time to pray for strangers who enter our gates and see miracles happen again.   I need to start interceding for this fall.

Trust

I will be praying God cleanses my heart where the fall activities are concerned.    I refuse to be burdened over it all.   I will NOT lean on my own understanding, but will acknowledge the Lord in all things.  Surely HE will direct my path.   I decree there will be JOY were there was dread.   PEACE where there was unrest.  LAUGHTER where there was frustration.

Perhaps someone else needed to read this today.   Was it you?

I pray each of us will walk above our circumstances and have childlike faith and trust in our Father.  I want to soar above it all and not be moved by the circumstances in my life.   How about you?