What a mug!

It was an easy enough task to do. A child could have

done it!  Just four mugs of coffee - that was it.

All I had to do was carry four full mugs into the

Church lounge and hand them out.

I could have put them on a tray and safely

transported them through the lobby.

I could have carefully carried them one at a time or asked someone to assist.

But not me! I thought having ten fingers would be enough to master four mug handles. Nope. Retrospect is a wonderful thing!

I looped my fingers through the handles, clutching three mugs tightly together in one hand and another in my left. I ignored common sense and prepared to deliver them all safely into the church lounge.

But the moment I lifted them, to my dismay, one slipped, and out poured a river of coffee, all over the table and onto the floor. To compensate I tilted the mugs to stop the flow, but doing so, spilled coffee from the other two mugs as well! Coffee cascaded everywhere! Splashing onto the floor!

Fiddlesticks – What a mug! I was too ambitious. Too overloaded. Too careless.

Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil

and a striving after wind. Ecc 4:6

Are you balancing too many things in your life?    Carrying too many burdens at one time? Juggling too many plates?     When we carry too much, something often gives. May God help us to draw aside, seek peace, find balance, and allow him to carry our burdens for us.          

With Love,   Rev Gill x                                                                                

Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens.