Where do you start? What do you say? How do you choose what happened to you today that you wanna share with the world?I really don't know where I am supposed to start on this 30 day journey. I know that I am SO not too busy to commit to this, however, when we pulled up into the driveway this evening, I started to cry cause I am so OVERWHELMED!!!! I don't really have a whole lot going on right now, but what I do have.... takes up ALOT of my time. I tell ya, last week, we worked til 4 everyday on Hunter's homeschooling. & that's another thing.... How do you find time to grocery shop, wash clothes, vacuum, clean toilets, dust, fold clothes, prepared dinner & RELAX?????? I haven't figured that one out yet! I do LOVE the homeschooling & I wouldn't NOT trade it for any amount of time, however, sometimes, I do miss my days of doing nothing!
Hummm...... A day of doing NOTHING!!!! What is that?????
I sure sometimes wish my to-do-list looked like that! Wouldn't that be nice?________________________________________________________
Today was a BUSY day! How many of you woke up EARLY this morning? Not just early, but and hour earlier than normal????? Well, of course, I did. I tried SO HARD to stay in bed.... NOPE, wasn't gonna happen. Needless to say, I ended up waking everyone else up early too & we arrived 30mins earlier to church than normal. It was kinda nice tho, not having to be in a hurry. After church we had lunch with my Mom & some friends. It was really nice getting to spend some time with Mom again. We haven't been able to sit down together in months! Good visit! :-) Shopping & more church, then a wedding....!
Today was a really good day too tho. God gave me a peace. The message this evening was in 2 Peter 1:1-11. You can read it all for yourself but I do want to focus on a few of the scriptures.5. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6. And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7. And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
Diligence - constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind.
Faith - confidence or trust in something.
Virtue - moral excellence; goodness; righteousness.
Knowledge - acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation.
Temperance - self-control.
Patience - the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, WITHOUT complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
Godliness - Having great reverence for God.
Brotherly Kindness - the quality or state of being kind.
Charity - benevolent goodwill toward or love of humanity.
WOW, that sure puts those words into perspective for me!
I am ALWAYS supposed to give my whole self! Don't we become EXHAUSTED??? (Like I am right now.) Seriously, Jesus EXPECTS 100% of/from us at all times? Seriously???? But you know..... Jesus was human too. I am sure He knows what it is like to be exhausted.... therefore, it may be HARD, BUT NOT TO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!
& not only does He expect us to give 100%, 100% of the time, he also expects us to have virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love & charity. ssseeeeeeessssshhhhhhhh what a mouth full.... but you know what He was! & even tho I am not perfect nor will I ever be, I am to STRIVE to be like HIM!!!!
So, tomorrow, I will diligently wake up & start my day the way Jesus would have me to. I know I will fail but I also know that He will forgive me & He will be there to pick me back up, bandage up my wounds & tell me it will be OK. He still loves me & NOTHING I ever do will change that! Praise God!
