Day 1

So...I started off the morning much better than in recent months, read from 1 Peter and was encouraged. I couldn't get enough of God(don't think I ever will) last night before bed, so I listened to another one of my Dad's sermons online. This one was about the Joy of God Calling. I felt even more broken while reading it. God has called us to live holy, to be holy as He is holy. I have such a struggle with the way that I am lately. Sometimes I find myself envying other Christian woman and their lives, their passion. But instead of doing anything about it, I just get down on myself and then slowly the void just seems to disappear with more and more sin and then I have forgotten. God is not letting me forget this time. He has broken my heart and I see my sin, I see myself in the mirror, the real me.

I do not plan to daily blog about what I have done for the Lord or what have you, I have read in scripture somewhere (I will find it) that it is better to serve in secret, to not let your deeds be known to man, you know, so that we can not be boastful. But I will tell you this, GOD IS GOOD. I am going to be trying to get as close to my Savior as possible, get to know him and learn what pleases Him. He is, after all, MY LORD.

So, I have done the first of important little things for the day and that was spend some time with the Lord. I am not done with that yet, I need more of Him, all throughout the day, so I will pray as unceasingly as possible and meet again with Him as soon as possible.

The next little thing I wanted to focus on was my family. I so often take for granted the time that I have with the precious four that I have. So today I have planned something fun for Ethan and I to do when he returns from Bible school. Now, I want to also mention that usually the mornings with the girls are hectic and lots of the time I fail to give them lots of hugs and kisses and grace in their slow dressing and frequent trips to the potty, but this morning, I tried harder to smother them with love. I felt good as Hailey, the last one out the door because she couldn't pick out which shoes to wear waved at me and probably would have come back for one more hug if I would have let her. Tomorrow, maybe I will let her. God has apparently given me some grace in patience this morning. I love my girls. I enjoyed them this morning, even though it was just getting them out of bed and dressed.

My next little thing, I will blog about later. Got to get to it!

Following in Faith,
J