“It is impossible to be too preoccupied with God, and it is only as we fill our hearts and minds with him that we become melted out of our likeness and moulded into his.”
–John Blanchard

This last week Lori and I were in Las Vegas. It was a mix of several days of vacation with part of our family, and several days of attending a software conference. The quote above caught my eye this morning because of the word “preoccupation”. Is it me, or are we as humans infatuated with the “pre” phase of things?

At this conference, as is probably the case at a lot of conferences, there was a “pre-conference” that offered special things. My mind right now is flooded thinking of all the things we have set in place before we actually get to do something else. Before I went back and could begin my coursework for my teaching certificate I was required to spend a certain number of hours in classrooms. Before Lori and I left the ground on our flights the flight attendants had to show us all the safety things we had to know. As I sit here and try to catch up, I have a lot of things to do before I head out and talk with clients. I could go on and on.

And what about God? How much time to I spend preparing to spend time with him. Forget the preoccupied part for a minute.  By its definition, “preoccupied” means “lost in thought”. Forget that. How do I prepare to be “lost in thought” with God? Of all the things that I would want to prepare for, seems this might be an important one. And I’m not talking about after my time here. I am talking about on a daily basis.

How do I prepare (or enable) myself to be “moulded into Him” on a daily basis? What can I do to put my heart and mind in a place where I am more receptive to interacting with Him?