Juggling - Quiz and Author's Insights
A quiz to get you digging into the Bible, and the author shares her thoughts about the poem.
Hi readers, it’s been a busy week for me over here, with a full schedule of teacher planning. Next week, it’s two more days of planning and then on Wednesday, our students come back. It has been, and certainly will continue to be, a time of juggling - work, kids, and household responsibilities, among other things. Thankfully, what I am juggling these days is a reasonable amount, by God’s grace and the prioritizing help of the Holy Spirit.
I am sure I am not alone in this juggling act. What have you been juggling lately? If it’s been too much, I want to encourage you, that it’s okay to drop a few balls if you need to.
With that in mind, I hope the quiz and the author’s insights for the latest piece, a poem (written by me) titled Juggling, can encourage you further in making decisions about what to juggle so that you can focus on what’s most important.
The quiz below is written in such a way as to possibly provoke you in three different ways: 1) to get you to read the Bible if you don’t know the references, 2) to affirm your Bible knowledge if you do know the references, and/or 3) to get you reading closely.
Quiz
Which of the following places in the Bible, below, presents an opportunity for people to do more than they can handle?
Philippians 4:6-7
1 Corinthians 12
Matthew 6:25-34
Read Isaiah 40:28-31 below:
28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.Which of the following lines from the poem, below, best connects with the idea of “waiting on the Lord” as expressed in verse 31 above?
“Maybe it’s that I’m a fool, not a bad juggler.”
“I am just going to go ahead and throw / a few balls away.”
“And, pastor / keeps preaching / too many priorities / paralyzes people.”
“More than three is too much, he says.”
Author’s Insights
About the Author
Sara Oyela writes poetry and other things, too. She has also dabbled in visual art and woodworking. Currently, she teaches English language arts in a public high school, and at home, she does all kinds of random handiwork. She and her husband live in Metro-Atlanta, Georgia with their four children.
You can connect with Sara via email at author@sarosaoyela.com or on Instagram at @sroyela. Also, sign up for her poetry and newsletter series, for free, here on Substack at
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