Ping Pong anyone?

How many of you have ever played ping pong? I did growing up. Mainly in the youth room at church. Once I got to college, I found that it was a pretty fun game to play while on a date. My boyfriend at the time,(then husband..then ex-husband) and I would go play the game along with him trying to teach me how to play pool. Well, remember how you start the game tinking the ball back and forth at each other? Then pretty soon you are going a little faster and next thing ya know, someone, either you or your opponent, suddenly slams the little ping pong ball to try to win the point. Two things can happen. One, you win the point. Two, you lose the point. So what does this have to do with anything?
Well, think about it in regards to our daily lives. Most days we are tinking our way through. We tink the ping pong, then someone else tinks back..aka..life....then suddenly slam!!!! And you rush to win the point. Sometimes you win...sometimes you don't.
Well, this week I have actually felt like the ping pong ball itself. Tink....busy at work. Tink....training at work....Tink....meetings for the mission trip...Tink...picked up an extra shift at work....Tink....got sick....Tink...have meetings lined up this week to learn the sound equipment for the dinner on Saturday...Tink...have to sing at the dinner...Tink..still sick....Tink...stressing a little and not sleeping...Tink...suppose to sing Wednesday night...Tink...feel yucky......SLAM!!!!! I have had enough! Time out...okay...regroup...stay home Wednesday night and relax...the group can do fine without me...called Pr Bob, Stacy and Karen G to talk about situations...asked for help...and asked for support...prayed...ate Chicken Fried Steak for supper too!!!
So...what is my point? Sometimes we are just tinking along, working, and living, and soon we have a few more tinks back and forth with added responsibilites and activities...and we keep tinking along until we are overloaded with them and the tinks suddenly become one big slam!!! What do ya do???
Well...I prayed and I called upon people to help lift me up and give me advice....and then I defused and regrouped....thus the relaxing and the Chicken Fried Steak (ya I know it isn't a weight watchers food...but it was GOOD!).
And I sought God's Word...this is what I was reminded of in
Lamentations 3:21-26

21 This I recall to my mind,

Therefore I have hope.

22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed,

Because His compassions fail not.

23 They are new every morning;

Great is Your faithfulness.

24 “ The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,

“ Therefore I hope in Him!”

25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,

To the soul who seeks Him.

26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly

For the salvation of the LORD.

So this is the message I have and will continue to meditate on this week...and with God's help...I can win the next point, the game, the set and the match of Ping Pong!

God Bless!

Lorrie