I feel like I'm struggling to:
- make God known in my life
- prioritize my life in a biblical manner
- put off the sinful nature
- grasp the breadth of His love
- live surrendered to the Holy Spirit's guidance
- not be conformed to the pattern of this world
- be transformed by the renewing of my mind
- keep my house clean (what? cleanliness is next to godliness, right?!)
- be the prayer warrior that my boys need me to be, that my church needs me to be, that my extended family needs me to be, that my friends who don't know Him need me to be!
- love people the way He has called us to love
- serve others
- be the example of a christian hedonist
- only allow edifying words to proceed out of my mouth!
- make biblical spiritual disciplines my goal, my priority
- be in this world, but not of it
- remember that my life is not my own
- remember that my children are not my own - they are His
- bathe all things in prayer
- not be hypocritical
i know that i have this massive blogger following of people who simply don't leave comments (ha - jk)! but, seriously, if you are reading this, I ask for your prayer. this is like an online journal for me and the plus side is that someone reading this can approach the Lord on my behalf -- AWESOME! allow me to do the same for you if you feel like you are struggling in any way!
p.s. i don't want this post to sound discouraging -- I rejoice in these struggles! i'm so thankful that the Holy Spirit is bringing them to my attention and that He desires to help me turn them into the person He wants for me to be! I serve a great big God and I'm so glad to be His child. I just don't want to waste my life on all of these meaningless things and miss bringing Him the glory He deserves!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
I'm a Terrible Blogger!
I LOVE reading other people's blogs and keeping up with their lives, yet I am the absolute worst at keeping up with my own blog. Ya, well - what can I say?!
So, for an update:
Dash is growing quite quickly, which makes his mother very happy -- I'm not a huge fan of the infant stage and I'm pretty sure I am much more pleasant to be around once that stage is over! He REALLY wants to get places, but he just can't do it on his own yet. He absolutely LOVES his big brother, which I think is REALLY cool. His face totally lights up when Boston enters the room and he gets really excited when Boston talks to him or plays with him. I think that's awesome!
Boston is also getting bigger and bigger. He is absolutely hilarious (of course I'm his mother and I would think that regardless, but he really is). He cracks me up all the time. He is wanting to learn how to read, so I guess I should teach him one of these days. He really loves puzzles AND playing all the many games on Lance's ITOUCH. He gets high scores all the time -- he loves it!
Lance and I are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary tomorrow --awwwww, how sweet!! I know! We are still working 3 part-time jobs between us and rockin' along! He would love to become full-time at the church, which may happen in the not too distant future - we shall see. We are really excited to get this school year kicked off with the students at church - our prayer is to see some growth this semester, spiritually first of all, but also numerically.
I started teaching a BOOTCAMP this morning - we will meet twice a week for 8 weeks. I have 7 ladies signed up and I think it went really well for our first day. It's at 5:30 in the stinkin' morning, but it's just 2 days a week -- I think I can handle it. It was really fun!
Lance and I are also both training for the Austin Marathon in February -- we'll see how that goes. He's run 2 marathons and I've run about 5 miles at one time before! I'm actually only training for the half marathon, which is 13 miles, but still seems like a long way to me! It's Valentines Day weekend, so I think it will be fun.
Anyway, I can't think of much else to update right now and I don't have any pictures to upload - we need a decent camera one of these days! Maybe I should start a savings fund for that...
So, for an update:
Dash is growing quite quickly, which makes his mother very happy -- I'm not a huge fan of the infant stage and I'm pretty sure I am much more pleasant to be around once that stage is over! He REALLY wants to get places, but he just can't do it on his own yet. He absolutely LOVES his big brother, which I think is REALLY cool. His face totally lights up when Boston enters the room and he gets really excited when Boston talks to him or plays with him. I think that's awesome!
Boston is also getting bigger and bigger. He is absolutely hilarious (of course I'm his mother and I would think that regardless, but he really is). He cracks me up all the time. He is wanting to learn how to read, so I guess I should teach him one of these days. He really loves puzzles AND playing all the many games on Lance's ITOUCH. He gets high scores all the time -- he loves it!
Lance and I are celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary tomorrow --awwwww, how sweet!! I know! We are still working 3 part-time jobs between us and rockin' along! He would love to become full-time at the church, which may happen in the not too distant future - we shall see. We are really excited to get this school year kicked off with the students at church - our prayer is to see some growth this semester, spiritually first of all, but also numerically.
I started teaching a BOOTCAMP this morning - we will meet twice a week for 8 weeks. I have 7 ladies signed up and I think it went really well for our first day. It's at 5:30 in the stinkin' morning, but it's just 2 days a week -- I think I can handle it. It was really fun!
Lance and I are also both training for the Austin Marathon in February -- we'll see how that goes. He's run 2 marathons and I've run about 5 miles at one time before! I'm actually only training for the half marathon, which is 13 miles, but still seems like a long way to me! It's Valentines Day weekend, so I think it will be fun.
Anyway, I can't think of much else to update right now and I don't have any pictures to upload - we need a decent camera one of these days! Maybe I should start a savings fund for that...
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