Hiatus

So I guess I have been on a blogging hiatus for quite some time. Deal is I just really had too much going on. I started back up on my Masters and had way too much homework. I was still helping Dave at the VCC by writing children's cirriculum, leading a Beth Moore small group and I was given the privilege of teaching a couple different times these past few months. On top of all that Addy had to get tubes in her ears (YUCK). Oh and did I mention we HAD to go to Florida for two weeks. I think that one was the hardest, of course. 

God has been working though. He has challenged me in so many ways. Over the past month I feel like I have been through a personal inventory in my own life. It's amazing how each time you put together a lesson to teach to a group of young people you leave the one that had the biggest heart check.

Romans 12:1-2 says  ^1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

The process of yielding to the Lord and running past this world is a daily thing but it is a thing that I want to do. It amazes me how we get bogged down. So I don't struggle with KEY sins - but really are key sins anyways. How many times in the last month have I impatiently responded to my children or to the man in the car next to me. or how many times have I set a bad example or how many times have I  allowed the beauty and the dream to fit in a be accepted in this culture to lure me in and convince me I needed to take things to the next level. How many times have I set aside my quiet time to do something that makes life in this world easier. Fitting in has to no longer be a priority in my life and it should no longer be a priority in yours. I want Jesus in excess.