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Hello Reader,

This week has hardly gone according to plan. 🙄

Upon returning home from our New Year's hunting trip, I spent the weekend prepping all the things––laundry, grocery shopping, etc. so I could hit the ground running and feel productive on Monday. It is the new year after all, aren't we supposed to be crushing goals and chasing dreams?!

Ready to conquer the world, I came downstairs Monday morning only to find one of my teenagers was not feeling well. Nothing serious, but the kind of run down, icky feeling, tired all day kind of funk.

My to-do list got tossed aside and only the essential tasks were accomplished, as we moved slow, consumed vitamins, and listened to the needs of our bodies. By Tuesday he rebounded and I was back to planning the week, determined to get back to things on Thursday and tackle the to-do lists....until, you guessed it, Thursday morning arrived with a different run down, icky feeling teenager.

Rather than check things off my list, I spent days snuggling on the sofa with boys, watching movies, making vitamin concoctions, baking breads to coax them to eat. (You know a teenager feels terrible when they refuse to eat fresh baked goodies!)

At one point in the day, frustrated that nothing I had wanted to accomplish in the day was going to be accomplished, I whispered to God, "God, this isn't the pace I had set for this week, what if I lose my momentum? What if another kid gets sick and we have another sick day? What if I lose this opportunity? What if I can't get this project done in time?"

Anyone else good at the "What if ...?" game with God?🙋🏻‍♀️

Right there, snuggled under blankets on the sofa with my boys, the Lord whispered to my spirit, "What if we just move at My pace and not yours? What if You let me worry about all the pieces to the puzzle of your life and you just live where I have you in this moment?"

Just like that, I lost at the "What If" game with God.

A new year is a great time to set goals, renew your focus, reset priorities and tighten up structures. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking any of those things. I'm just wondering if perhaps there is anyone else who in the midst of seeking to move forward needs the reminder that we don't have to play the "What If?" game with God.

What if we stopped worrying about all the things this year may or may not hold for us, and we just asked, "What if God is just God and He does what He's purposed and planned to do, and I just go along for the journey with Him?"

I don't know what the next day holds. Maybe my to-do list gets accomplished, maybe God rewrites the list all together 🤷🏻‍♀️ Either way, I know moving at God's pace will always get us where we need to be when we need to be there. This year, let's do away with the "what if game" and let's play a new game--the watch God move game. Let's just look to Him, watch Him work, and then follow along.

Father, You know the end from the beginning and all the days before us are already written. Help us to leave behind our "what if" questions and instead just watch You move and work around us. Give us eyes to see You. Help us to move forward throughout this year at Your pace, not ours. In the name of Jesus and by the power of the Spirit I pray, amen.

In His Grace,

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​ Natalia Drumm is a wife, homeschooling mother to three boys, and graduate from Dallas Theological Seminary with a passion for women's ministry and sharing the Gospel. Seeking to glorify God through equipping women to study Scripture and grow in their faith, she is the creator of Girlfriends in the Word™ Bible studies for busy women. To learn more, or connect with her online you can find her on Instagram @nataliadrumm or check out her website www.nataliadrumm.com​

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