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So...it has been a few weeks since I have sat down and taken the time to write a post. Not because my life is overwhelmed at this point but almost to the contrary. I feel a deep sensation of mediocrity right now. It seems as if my life is revolving around several states of mediocre and they are all frustrating.

Right now, I am undergoing tests to determine whether the pain I am having in my gallbladder area is really my gallbladder or not. This process has been long, drawn out, and has left me wondering when we will find something out so this pain will go away? My Church is going through a state of living death. By this, I mean that we are going through so many motions, but there is no state of excitement, joy, zeal, or anything else that would surround the Christian life. My teen group is going through the typical teen group battles: Why God in my life? Why God in my time? Why God at all? My family is suffering from the fact that I have a mother in law that will not motivate herself enough to go out and get a job.

Narrative: (Begin Speaking with Twilight Zone Voice) “Your about to leave a place of excitement. You are going to step out of your happy life and into a state of lowliness. The sign ahead says next stop….The Mediocre Zone”

What can be done when you can’t control the things that are going wrong around you? Grab a hold of the thing you can control and Pray. I know that Prayer is powerful and the power that is possessed by the Christian who possesses the faith as a grain of a mustard seed, but sometimes things just don’t go our way, or our way quick enough. Sometimes you feel…Trapped.

Help!!! I want out of the Mediocre Zone!

Now Serving Number……5000.

I was reading my Wife’s post and she makes a good point. So often, we get so busy that we do not just stop and think about one thing. More often than not, we focus on hundreds of things at once. This weekend was a very busy weekend and seemed to fit this pattern. We planned for a graduation ceremony at the Church, we had a garage sale at the house, and we prepared for vacation, and in all this found time to prepare for Church. So many thoughts rush through my mind as the days pass and this Monday morning I find myself spent.

Nevertheless, I sit at my computer this morning, and I find myself not able to focus on one major point or thought. So many thoughts of concern and care for our Church and its members. So many thoughts toward my family. So many thoughts of what our next step in the ministry is. So many thoughts! Even in prayer, my mind wanders and fails to find structure and cohesive thought, but it was then I remembered some great verses in the Bible.

Romans 8 (22) "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. (23) And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (24) For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?" (25) But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (26) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. (27) And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. (28) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Thank you Lord for knowing the heart of men and in those times when I do not know how to pray and just a sigh or a “groan” comes out…You Know What is In My Heart. What a great God we serve.