Monday's Epiphany

You'd think with a blog name like "Epiphany Springs" and a homeschool named "Epiphany Prep School" I'd focus more on the epiphanies in my life. Well, I think my blog would more appropriately be named "Sieve Springs" because I have a mind more like one of those, LOL.

But this morning I *did* have an epiphany, and I remembered it long enough to bring it to you. I know you are all waiting with bated breath. ;-)

I tend to search outside myself, sometimes obsessively, anxiously, for the answers to what plagues me on any given day. I'm always looking, reading, blog surfing, googling. When I'm not actively doing that my mind is a-swirl with the information I've taken in from those sources. Through it all, I'm usually crying out to God, "I'm so confused about situation X, what do I doooooooo?"

Well, it hit me this morning - and probably not for the first time, mind you (remember the sieve) that God has all the answers already, he is an infinite storehouse of knowledge bigger and better than I could ever imagine, and that I cannot hear God and tap into that vast storehouse if my mind is always in a tornado of thoughts and sights (or should that be sites? It's often computer forum/blog related). I'm pretty well read in general, it's unusual for me to come across a TRULY new idea that I want to institute, so God can use what is already in my subconscious to teach me what to do next, but I must be able to hear him. There must be a mental quiet.

The answer isn't out there. It's in here, where God resides.