Out of Tune….

When was the last time you were in a setting and had a genuine connection with people that were in the room?   You can’t remember huh?  That’s ok, we have been groomed in these current times to have what I like to call, an artificial connection.  We go to events and hardly talk to each other and we are not even interested in creating new connections with others. I can go deep into all the things that are wrong with that.  We are all guilty of it in some aspect. It does not help either if you already have an introverted personality and would care not to be bothered like me. We make sure we are busy and not available.  Sticking and moving in and out places not taking the time to see what potential is in the room.  Potential to make a friend. An opportunity to help someone. Be a sounding board. Or bounce your thoughts and ideas off someone else and get a different perspective.

 The Bible says there is safety in the multitude of counsel.  If being around people for mental health sake is not enough to check how in tune you are with human connection, you probably need to go and talk to a professional quick! I am serious.  We are in a pandemic and for the first time ever all over the world we are in the same boat.  This time has caused all of us to do one of two things and sometimes both… trip the heck out because we had to face the reality of what we are not, or have become, or we’ve seen it as an opportunity to self-correct and skip the melt down part because we are not for the drama that is trying to overtake us. I’m that chick to have experienced both, but this time it has been really different. 

As much as my children have driven me up the wall being confined with them, I see the blessing in being hands on with their education and watching them evolve.  All this has caused me to lean on my husband more than usual because everything around me seems so uncertain.  I have always been very involved in my greater family at large, but it allowed me to see what gaps needed to be filled and places where my interjection was never really necessary.  I found out how many friends I had…Ha! Not too many. The funny thing is, I was not really that sad about it.  I think I just was counting… any who. 🤣 I say all that to say my mind has turned in another direction where human connection is important, and every moment counts. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone. I am not a fake person, so I do not do well in prefabricated settings. Don’t get me wrong, preparation is always good in any setting, but the event itself is not responsible for setting the atmosphere, the atmosphere is created by connections made by those who attend the event. When was the last time you went up to someone you knew and you said, “what are you about to do?”, and they said, “nothing, let’s go get something to eat.” You then run into more people along the way and before you know its genuine fellowship.

Now I am smart enough to know in those settings, you find out who’s personalities mesh and whose do not. The realization that we’d all come to, is that although the misconceptions about how everyone would mesh existed, the connections established poured water on those misconceptions and made it all the better.  That Is what I am seeking after. I am not interested in being somewhere for optics sake (them pictures on the gram and the book👀). Captions saying, “fun was had by all”, but there was a whole different story actually… but I digress. 

So, with much prayer and pondering, In The Moment: Conversation & Cookery is on the way this winter. Good food and fellowship have never hurt nobody, right.  Let’s be intentional about the moments we create. Make sure when you come into a setting, you are seeking the purpose God intended for you in that place. It may not be your conversation per se, but it might be your connection to the people who are in the room. I have been told that I bring peace in environments, which draws a lot of people who are chaotic to me. Do I like it? NOPE, but I am finding the more I yield to what God has put in me, the less it stresses me out. Just saying🤷‍♀️. I’ve had enough experience with second guessing myself and not taking advantage of the opportunity presented to me. I do not know why I have avoided it at times, but it is time to do it even if I am afraid. The only way to truly fail is to never try right? Right. This is not just lip service either. Every day I have a choice to make.

I know none of what I’m doing or saying is as popular as it once was, but I don’t care. Let’s lend our peaceful disposition to an atmosphere. Let us take the opportunity to be kind to someone or to help someone.  Be a listening ear.  Don’t be so caught up with you, that you miss the point for God waking you up another day.

Get in Tune. 

I love Everybody ,But I love God the Most !

XOXO