Wait... Not THAT kind of bucket!!
Not the I'm-gonna-be-sick kind, but the my-hair's-on-fire-and-I've-gotta-put-it-out kind.
Each year, I fast and pray the week after Thanksgiving to seek the Lord for direction for our church for the next year. It's an absolutely MISERABLE time for me (I LOVE to eat), but it's also an AMAZING time because of all that God burns into my heart.
It actually starts about a week or two before the fast begins, as my brain is full of storms (pun intended, even though it wasn't very funny).
This year, a couple of Fridays before I started fasting, I was driving down the interstate in the Florida panhandle when, all of a sudden & right out of nowhere, this amazing idea dropped throigh my head and into my heart.
Immediately, I was absolutely consumed with this idea. I turned it over & over in my mind as I travelled down I-10 for several hours (if you've ever driven I-10 in the Florida panhandle, you know all-too-well just how much thinking time that stretch of road gives you).
It has been burning in me ever since! Not a day goes by--sometimes not even an hour--when it isn't on my mind. It creeps into my thoughts from every imaginable angle, like that evil flame from that 90's movie, "Backdraft." No sooner than I can quench it from taking over my concentration, it bursts back into the forefront of my attention.
It just keeps burning and burning and burning and burning...
I can't wait until Sunday the 27th, when I will be sharing this idea with our church!
If I don't, I'm gonna explode!
You got that bucket?
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