Early this summer I was having a dialogue with Jesus. I was feeling frustrated and overwhelmed and went to him with my cry of "help"! In my mind I had a picture of a jumbled up pile of sticks. They represented all the things I wanted sorted, organized ... laid straight. He graciously offered to take the sticks one at a time, as I named them. So I picked one up, named it, and handed it over. But he said "not that one". What?! I tried another one. Same response. I dug around in the pile. I pulled one out and named it "my relationship with you". He smiled! He took it! And laid it down gently and carefully, then proceeded to line up all the other sticks next to it until everything was satisfactorily neat and tidy.
This image returned to me today as I listened to Dar talk about putting our love for Jesus first. There is room for everything else. It will all line up after that. Him first.
Even in the last 6 weeks since I had this image, my pile of sticks has gotten jumbled again. But he's there, waiting to lay them straight again.
-Candice
