A Light Bulb Moment

I just finished reading "The Shack" by WM. Paul Young. This book about a man and his conversation with God has literally given me some greater understanding into my own relationship with my Father in Heaven. This man named Mack is explaining to God that he knows he is a big disappointment to him. When God questions why he feels this way, Mack explains how he knows he is supposed to put God first in everything...that God should be at the top of the pyramid and everything else takes a place below. Yet he finds that there are so many times he chooses work, family, friends, interests instead of God. I love the response from a very loving God & his son Jesus Christ to Mack's concern.
He says, "I don't want to be first among a list of values; I want to be at the center of everything that happens to you. Rather than the top of a pyramid, I want to be the center of a mobile, where everything in your life--your friends, family, occupation, thoughts, activities---is connected to me but moves with the wind, in and out and back and forth, in an incredible dance of being."
This really was an aHa moment for me. I loved it so much that I used it in Family Home Evening last night. Because in real daily life even if we are getting up early to read our scriptures, saying our daily prayers, serving our family & others, fulfilling church responsibilities (which I can't say I do EVERY day) there is still a big portion of the day spent tending to other things on my pyramid and so I guess I always felt as though I fall a little short in putting God first. But it is SO much more DOABLE to rethink life as a mobile where our Father in Heaven & Jesus Christ are part of EVERYTHING we do each day. So beautiful...its simplicity changed my thinking!