The last two months have been a little chaotic to say the least.  After running into issues with my tiny house, I haven’t been able to live in it full time yet.  Which means I’ve been a nomad… traveling between the tiny house, friends’ houses and a hotel.  I’ve been wearing the same five or six outfits over and over (which just further proves the point that you don’t need many clothes!), been buying my groceries a few meals at a time and been unpacking and packing my stuff every week or so.

It’s not exactly how I thought my summer was going to go.  Instead, when my house was delivered back at the beginning of June, I thought I’d start my new mortgage-free life of adventure!  Which I will… just a little later than expected.

So in the meantime, my brain has turned to a bit of a pile of mush from all the stress.  Granted, I know what this is from (my adrenal fatigue – which I was in the process of recovering from when this all started), so it’s nothing to be too alarmed about.  But it is difficult to deal with nonetheless.

When your brain is consumed by so many things, it has difficulty concentrating on any one thing.  So for the past couple months, I found myself feeling overwhelmed and unable to accomplish everything I had to do.

But that’s when God reminded me of a simple little truth… one thing at a time.

See, as an admittedly OCD-person, I like to get everything done all at once.  If I have a to-do list, I like to knock everything off of it as quickly as possible.  If I have a list of items to buy at the store, I like to purchase everything on the list and feel quite disappointed if I have to leave without something.  Friends have even laughed about my clothes shopping tendencies… if I need a black shirt, I’ll go out and buy a black shirt that day.  No looking around for several days or weeks for the “right one.”

So during the past couple months, when the list of things I had to accomplish would pile up in my head, I felt the need to accomplish everything right away like I always do.  But unfortunately, that was just not possible.  There were extenuating circumstances and my body plain didn’t have the energy.

But once God spoke those simple words to me… it was like the pressure was off.

I realized I can still accomplish everything I need to do.  I just need to take a little longer to do so.  Even though I’m just now getting around to mailing packages, following up with people and catching up on projects that I would’ve liked to have done weeks ago, I am still doing them.  As I have time and eventually it all will get finished.

Sometimes you have to extend grace to yourself and be patient.  You have to listen to your body and your spirit.  And listen to God’s simple message…

One thing at a time.