Shaunti Feldhahn

Jul 30

Written by: Shaunti Feldhahn
7/30/2009 8:55 AM

As mentioned in a previous blog entry, I get asked questions that refer to information from my books.  But I also get the "just wanted to know" type questions too!  Second question:  What is God teaching you lately?

As trite as this may sound, my answer is truly relaxing and letting go of my ability to control everything.  That includes letting go of worrying about how I'm going to meet all my dealines when there aren't enough hours in the day!  Since October of 2008, I have been trying to fit 2 full time projects into a part-time work schedule.  While juggling 2 projects (writing a new book and creating new bible study) I have been concerned that I would do neither very well.  So I have been making sure that when I’m working on one, I’m fully engrossed in it.  That means the days set aside for those projects are met, and the others may fall behind.  Sometimes it was unavoidable when the research took longer than anticipated.  Therefore I ran into the time when I should have been totally focsed on the bible study.  My natural tendency in such a situation has always been to panic and work 100 hour weeks and commit myself to my computer and but neglect my family.  Instead I had been making a concerted effort to continue to prioritize my family, do what I an do in a reasonable time frame and trust God to do the rest.  Because there is no way I in my human number of hours a day can get it all done.  It has been a very valuable lesson in a whole different type of trust.  I’m thankful that I can see the fruit of that in my kids lives and my marriage and so far God has taken care of continuing to give me favor with publisher and bible study producer so I don’t delay their projects too much.  It is hard for us as women sometimes to let go but I’ve been glad to see that when I have done that it has allowed me to see God do what only He can do.  

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