A Paid Project for God
June 17, 2010
This week I have neglected you, my dear readers, but not because I don’t care about sharing. For the first time in 7 years I have a paid project to do – writing a study guide for my friend, Lynn Baber’s book, Amazing Grays – Amazing Grace, and the deadline is tight. It has to be ready by next weekend for a homeschooling conference in Austin, Texas. Lynn and I work as a team and I have to re-read each chapter, develop questions based on the content, and devise suitable exercises for readers to apply the lessons. She’ll edit and add necessary horse-related stuff.
This work is very like what I did in my business career when I developed training programs and training manuals. Thinking is hard work and very time consuming when I am putting something like this together, just as when I write blog posts. I always want to bring something useful to readers. It also takes prayer.
The project made me reflect on the value Sunday’s collect (prayer) has for me each week. I pray the 1962 Short Breviary daily and unless we celebrate a particular feast, the prayer at the end of each hour is Sunday’s collect. It so happens that last Sunday’s collect (the Third Sunday after Pentecost) fits with Lynn’s message of obedience to God and the right relationship with Him.
O God, the protector of those who put their trust in Thee, without Whom nothing is strong, nothing holy; multiply upon us Thy mercy, that with Thee as our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we may not lose those which are eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Thy Son, who livest and reignest in unity with the Holy Spirit, God, world without end. Amen.
I can’t think of a better prayer for each of us as we set out to do God’s will daily. As for the study guide, as of this evening I have only 10 chapters to go!
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Your friend picked the right person to take on this job, Barb. It must be a lot of work but I know it will be great because you have a heart for God and you are VERY intelligent!
Mary, you are very kind. I must say that this is wearing me out because of the tight time frame, but if I can help others to come closer to God, it is worth it. Sometimes we don’t know why God gives us certain gifts, but they are always to be used in His service directly or indirectly. It took me many years to understand that and I’m glad I finally got the point!
Good luck with the study guide, Barb! Seems like God put this work in the right hands because you will obviously bring its readers closer to Him.