Good Up-Rising

I feel the good rising up in me.

God is the author of good because He is good, and God wants to help people be good and do good.

It doesn’t matter where on the spectrum a person is in relationship to God…every good idea was first inspired by God.

Yea, well I thought it up–it was my brain.

Who gave you your beautiful brain that can think a million different things?

You’re no monkey brain out of the swamp.

Your brain was made by God who created the swamp.

Don’t neglect and discredit the good rising up in you, rather get busy and start doing it.

What do I need to get busy with today?

Prime the Pump!

Sometimes we let ourselves get stagnant, get behind, become dry, stale, things aren’t working…

We need to prime the pump to get things going again!

Back in the day when people dug wells and had to pump water by raising and lowering the long handle to draw up water from the ground…if it hadn’t been used for a long, long time, then no water would come up as you pumped the handle. So to get things flowing again, they had to pour a little water into the well (prime the pump) and get it running again. I really don’t know all the ins and outs of the process; however, adding only a relatively small amount of water to the pump resulted in LOTS of water coming out!

This morning, I was kind of uncertain what to do first, where to start…even wondering if I was capable! Crazy thoughts that come to us all!!

The thought came, ‘I need to prime the pump’.

There were still all the same talents, skills, capabilities, and ideas inside me, I had to get them out by priming my pump…just pouring a little water on one thing, one idea, one skill and bring it back to life, get it flowing again and I’d be off!!!

It worked! It wasn’t hard, all it needed was a little water and the floodgates opened!

Do you have one or maybe two or even three areas in your life where the pump needs to be primed? Take a look back at areas where the water has flowed freely in your life before and pour a little water on them. Get things going again. That’s all it takes.

The hardest part is lifting your hand to pour the water.

Let’s get started together. This world needs the waters we have flowing to sustain them.

Water yourself; then you can water your world.

Make Something!

We are made to make something! We are creative human beings designed to make and create something to increase/beautify/better this world—at least one portion of it (ours)!

I think when we’re not creating…thinking of how to build/make/design/cook/sew/plant –whatever your capacity and inclination is–then we can enter a lethargic lull…a lack of energy.

When these lulls, doldrums, whatever you call them hit…and they will…we need a project, to start something.

‘But I don’t feel like doing anything’, you say.  Then this is exactly the time you need to begin!

Just tinkering around experimenting- doing something, will shift your mind into forward gear.

I’ve learned to always have a project or two going that can be reverted back to finish and see the accomplishment of it when it’s done.

It’s not pride to look back at your work and say to yourself, “That looks good! I did alright!”

The acknowledgement of what you did will propel you to do more.

The cycle repeats.

What project do I have on the back burner ready to begin when the doldrums hit?