Available.

Many things have transitioned in and out of my life causing me to walk into a new season. When all this transition began, I boldly told the Lord to interrupt my days however He wanted because I never wanted the busyness of life to dictate my day and I wanted people to be more important than any other thing that I do.

This thought triggered when I started to notice how Jesus always had an agenda, but always stopped for the one.
I’m learning to make this a core value because I know that’s His heart.
I want to be available to others like Jesus was.

Time has passed since this request and I think somewhere along the journey I got lazy, hardened, and introverted; regardless of my lack of, He hasn’t stopped making this request my reality.
There is so much grace in the process.

I decided on Saturday morning to spend my weekend mostly at home.
I wanted to explore creativity and run a few errands that needed to get done, but my plans abruptly changed on Sunday when I heard Him say,
“Andrea, go to Inman. There’s something I need to show you there.”

A little thrown off I said no,
it was supposed to be my day of resting and I didn’t want to be around anyone.
He was more persistent than usual and repeated Himself two more times.

A little frustrated, I dramatically threw my things next to me, packed my bag, and got in my car.

This story could go on and I could tell you what I was doing, how much coffee I drank, how crazy I felt, and so on…
but to make a long drawn out story short, nothing happened.
It seemed pointless and after 2 hours of waiting around, I grabbed my stuff and left.

While driving back He revealed the whole point,
“I need you to be more available outside of your four walls,
they need to see me and know me.”

God cares about the city that He places us in
because He really cares about the people in it.
If we’re not careful we can get caught up in work, mundane tasks, and ourselves, forgetting that there’s a lost group of people just a couple blocks away that need what we have.
We were never meant to hoard what we know.

And I get it, life.
Work does get busy,
sometimes we do need to decompress,
and sometimes chaos happens and there isn’t any time.
But sometimes I wonder if that’s become an excuse.

Jesus had an agenda but He was always willing to go out of His way, be available, and stop for the one… because they were worth it.

So, because Jesus did it, I will choose to be available because you’re worth it.