“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. ‘I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing…'” Matthew 15:4-5
Check out Christian Women Online this month. Not only have they wonderful articles each month, by wonderful Christian columnists, but they have started a ‘meme’. Yeah, a meme. Fridays you can ‘pick-up’ a quote and ponder on it until Tuesday and submit your thoughts…In “Other Words” …This week’s quote is by Audrey Giorgi: “Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself”.
It really took me awhile to think about it. First, I have never heard this quote before. Second, visiting myself? How can I visit myself? Does is mean to search my soul? To really look deep inside me what I am thinking? Hm…
If it means to have some time to myself, well, there is really not much time for that. I would need like 48 hours to get all accomplished AND have time that I spend with the things I love to do.
I like blogging, I like photography, I like leading Bible studies, I like cooking and I love spending quality time with my Sweetheart…But that is really not what the quote means? Or does it? I actually see ‘visit myself’ to rejuvenate and getting strength to make it through the day. I love to stay in His Word. Actually, this morning I set the alarm for 15 minutes earlier to have more time for my devotion, to have quiet time. I like Saturday mornings too. The house is quiet until about 9am and I can just have that time to ‘myself’ and get refreshed. I started ‘stealing’ some time during my lunch break to ‘work’ through a Bible study…You see, without Him, I can’t keep going the pace I am going…The day is just too long to go without some time without Him…Yeah, I guess that is how ‘I visit myself’…rejuvenate!
What an inspirational quote & what a great way you have chosen to visit yourself. *s*
How true, without Him, we certainly could never keep up this pace. You have inspired me to walk away from the keyboard this morning and head on out to the front porch with my Bible. Thanks! I am not a meme type blogger…but I love this one!!!
I, too, have to have my time along with God during the quiet mornings. We share so many likes. Wish we could meet one day.
Blessings to you!
I am sad I didn’t take or find time to ponder on this. I did ponder on it but not in text – just in my head. I guess that’s Ok, tho…. My back feels the pain from yesterday. Eek. I didn’t even walk my dog this AM – bad bad!
Happy Tuesday.
I didn’t have time to sit and ponder the quote this time around. I did print it out and stare at it for a while. I had a busy weekend and yesterday I spent the day with 7 kids under 10 years old! My own 4 kids and 3 others borrowed. I’ll think about it until Friday and then see what the new quote is.
I love that you would set your alarm earlier to have more quiet time with God. One of the things I admire most about my husband is that he would rise at 5:30 to have time with God before work.
Iris….Love the quote and the post. Just wandered by to let you know that today is Barbara’s birthday and I’m having a progressive birthday party for her. Would love for you to check it out.
Very inspiration Iris!
Interesting and awesome interpretation! May God continually bless you and yours 🙂
Very cool post. You’re right, it would take me many hours just to do all the things I really like to do just for me, blogging, photography, beach time, travel, etc. I’m fortunate in that I do get to do most of these things quite often. Visiting myself sometimes to me means spending time on my own, getting to know myself. After I retired from my Federal Civilian job, I spent more time at home and that’s when I began writing. It was wonderful at first, but the more time I spent alone I found out things about myself that I did not like and that needed changing. God used that time to point out some areas of my life that needed tweaking. I don’t have that much time alone these days, but I really learned a lot about myself during that period. Some times I can be quite different from the person I thought I was. God has a way of showing us things that we will only see if we have some time on our own. I guess I’ll have to make an appointment with myself again and see what’s going on in there. Great post Iris. You always write such interesting articles that make me think. That right there is a great accomplishment – getting me to think.
Iris a wonderful posting. I like the early part of the day for my quiet time. I sit in my chair in front of my craft window and as the sun rises I read the Word of my Father and his Son. Makes for a great start in the day. I have been taking more time to read the Bible than ever before and not only read but understand so much more!
On a different note, I am so thrilled that you got nominated in so many categories for the Blogs of Beauty Awards. You do deserve each and every one of them!