January 25

His Peace Amid Procrastination

Those who love Your law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble.

Psalm 119:165 (NAS)



I may not be the king, but I am a prince of procrastination. I sit at my messy desk in a dark room illumined by a dim lamp and Windows XP. The whole room is paper and boxes, books and folders and stack upon stack. Once again, I have let things go. Yes, they’ve gone a little too far.

I am burning the midnight oil and suffering through computer SNAFUs and late-night, slow-brain disease. It’s the last day to file my income tax, so here I am doing the last of 10 tax returns—for my parents, my son, my family partnership and myself. Today they’re in the mail or on the wire and as I finish up I’m wondering how Mr. Mom will handle the two kids in the morning and prepare a lesson for the marriage class tomorrow evening.

I need help, but I’ve been too busy to ask. I am like Martha—busy and active and yet so unproductive it seems—when in reality, my reality, I need to be more like Mary—sitting at my Master’s feet. Listening, asking, considering His ways—moving slower, surer, more confident … in Him.


LORD, I am sorry. I have been slow to open Your word, slow to consider Your chosen path. It’s late and amid my chaos and tiredness I have time for one verse before bed … and look! This is it. Please, pull me from this pit of procrastination into Your place of perfect peace. Amen.