time out

It's been so crazy... I hardly get time to sit down.. but at the end of the day, it has never felt so good to lay down in bed and know what you have accomplished during the day..... even if it's taking a nap.

Take my life....

My husband asks me what I want for Christmas, my birthday, what to do today, tomorrow. I ask myself what I want to do with my life. The thing is, I'm a simple person. I don't need expensive things. I was raised simply and it suits me still. However, now as a mother I sacrifice many things. My time, emotions, quiet time, hobbies - all for my family. I don't know what I want. But maybe, that's the point. Like a child learning what foods are good or what to see, where to go is all up to their parents who have the experience. There are endless possibilities and not enough time to do it. If it was up to the child, they would find the first thing they thought was great and stay with it. Take for example foods. If my children had the run of the menu, it would be McDonald's chicken nuggets and french fries and candy corn or sugar sticks and M&Ms with copious amounts of juice and soda. The outcome would be lethargy and death at a very early age. Older adults are like children. They like the good stuff and it's usually bad, which are called vices. I've been trying to learn what I want and have finally found it's not up to me what I want. It's what I need. And who better to know than my Creator. I need to think less and listen and read what He wants me to be and do more. "Now to HIM who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to HIS power that is at work within us, to HIM be glory in the church and in CHRIST JESUS - throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen" Eph. 3:20-21