So Yesterday!
Recently, in an attempt to be culturally relevant to my new freshman in high school daughter, I brought up the Miley Cyrus twerking incident. I asked, “Have they been talking about Miley’s performance at school?” To which she responded, “Oh mom that was so yesterday!” Really? I was outdated within 36 hours. It happened Sunday night and I asked her on Tuesday afternoon. I was already “behind,” “out of date,” and “so yesterday?!”
This past weekend I led a creative communion experience for our church’s worship services. After the first one, I met a second time guest who was not pleased with this creative experience at all. She was not pleased with the fact that I was a woman leading it and a list of other things as well. Exhausted from the already challenging evening from no air conditioning to multiple technical difficulties, I felt completely waylaid by this woman.
It was challenging on many fronts as I immediately became defensive, but by the grace of God moved to an attempt to let her feel heard. Afterwards the processing began with my closest friends and my senior pastor. I crawled into bed that night knowing I needed to refocus and gain strength from God so I could lead again the next day. So He and I talked.
God led me to “The words of the wicked are a deadly ambush, but the speech of the upright delivers them” (Proverbs 12:9, NRSV). I did not feel the woman was wicked, but I felt the legalism she was bound in was. I did not feel that I was upright or had said anything that would deliver her, but I put my faith and trust in the Righteous One whose Truth is what sets us all free. I slept well that night and the next morning the AC was working, no technical difficulties and NO ambushes after the service!
Walking this morning, the event from Saturday night popped into my head and I began to rehash it in my mind. All the things you wished you’d said how I would handle it differently and then a twinge of anger pinched my gut. How dare she attack me like that after worship? “God,” I cried out in my frustration with the situation yet no real request or words to say to Him. He spoke back into my spirit through the words of my daughter, “So yesterday!”
I laughed out loud. Yes it was more than yesterday. It was history, gone and done. Move on Janae. Capture the thought and move on. I asked God to help me think about more important things, heaven things and help me to hold my earth things captive to Him. I asked Him to help me live in today! Because today is so today and but a fleeting moment it is. I don’t want something from yesterday to steal my joy today!
Moving from “So yesterday” to “So living today!”
So good!!
Janae! Hi friend! I LOVED this post. It was relevant and fun and funny and truth! I too am constantly worried about things that I cannot control from yesterday and tomorrow robbing me of the joys in today. Blessings and keep pursuing the Father’s path for your life! Am so happy I can “journey” this life with you… through this fun blog!
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” This truism works best even in a Biblical sense. The history (Word of God) of the Bible clearly underscores the fact that many women proved to be among the best disciples of advancing God’s Kingdom on earth. Biblical history also sadly notes that it was the male gender that determined that women had no rightful authority to serve in such enlightened leadership positions. Sad, but true, some of that same God-limiting opinion still holds sway among those who would serve dogma rather than embrace the freeing spirit of God. Give me any day that a person of the Lord – be they man or woman – breaths the freeing joy of our Lord into my life.