A story on the theme of Luke 10.38-42

Title: “Resting in God” (Prayer)

Theme:  We need to root ourselves in the "one thing" that God desires for us--to focus on "being"...and allow any "doing" flow out of that.  

Will had been sitting quietly thinking for quite a long time. He had been thinking about how fun it had been, earlier in the afternoon, to play with the Lego set that he had gotten last Christmas. It had been more than nine months that he’d had it and he’d learned how to build it and rebuild it and add parts and change parts around. He could make it move other Lego blocks from one place to another and then move itself from one place to another. It was a very complicated set with wires and motors and gears and belts and hinges and tracks and batteries and controls.

He hadn’t always had such nice thoughts. In fact, almost as soon as he had unwrapped the package and discovered that it was just what he had been hoping for and ripped open the box and started to build it...he had gotten mad...really mad...really, really mad...so mad that he broke a part of it. It just wouldn’t go together the way it looked in the picture on the box. 

Now as he sat quietly, he wondered, “What was I thinking? How could I build that complicated kit with wires and motors and gears and belts and hinges and tracks and batteries and controls by just looking at the picture on the box and not even looking at the plans. The plans were very good plans. They showed very clearly, step by step, how to put the kit together; how to snap one block on top of the other. But he hadn’t even seen them inside the box, he was in such a hurry to build the kit.

Now as he sat quietly, he remembered how easy it had been to build the kit after he finally studied the plans; laid out all the parts so he could see them; and started following the plans slowly putting together all the blocks and wires and motors and gears and belts and hinges and tracks and batteries and controls -- step by step

Now as he sat quietly, he thought about other times since last Christmas when he had just sat quietly and thought through what he was going to do before he did it. When he did that, by the time he got around to doing something, he really knew what he was doing and he had discovered that some of the things that he thought he should do were things that he didn’t have to or shouldn’t do.

Now as he sat quietly, he thought that when he stopped early in the morning, right after he woke up, and thought and prayed about what he was going to do that day...his day usually went a lot better.