The Beauty of Boundaries

So my church is doing a series of preaching on boundaries and I'm learning alot...and when I say 'alot' I mean the kind of 'alot' where this will most likely come out all wrong and take twice as long to decipher as it streams from my disorderly intellect and into reality. It's been a bit of a wake up call and I'm slowly seeing that through the theory of boundaries I can have more control over certain parts of my life than I have been having...if I commit to being a willing participant for said greater good that is!

This is all based on a verse in Psalm 16 that says "the boundaries have fallen for me in plesant places". When I first heard that I did not for the life of me understand it. A month ago if you had of asked me to give a thought on what boundaries mean to me I would have said words to the effect of "well, you know, you put boundaries up and they limit you and make you miss out on opportunities and so they are not so good" and not a thought further.

Well yeah boundaries limit you BUT that can actually be a good thing!! My Pastor gave the most brilliant description (from a source I can't remember) that "In the beginning..." the universe was in chaos before God put the boundaries in of land, sky, sea etc. That everything was in utter chaos because nothing was in its rightful place. An answer to pray and I can see ever so clearly, whether I am aware of boundaires or not, that the few 'little pieces of chaos' in my life (you know the ones which just go round and round and if you do something it doesnt stop and if you do nothing it goes even faster) are the precise areas which have absolutely NO boundaries...funny that :)

For the first time i'm consciously considering the boundaries in my life...and I'm left with a sense of ownership that works out perfectly in theory (as most of life does) but is rather a struggle in reality. Attempting to put boundaries in place where they have not lived before is not such an easy task!

But wait there is more...atm the 'more' is stuck sandwiched somewhere in that disordely intellect...Part 2 - coming soon