Made to crave

2 My soul yearns, even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.

Psalm 82:4

Putting and keeping God's word in my mind, heart and soul is the habit that will continue to increase my love for Him and correct the relationship with my friend, food. For too long food has been my comforter, companion, always there but never really satisfying.  What I've noticed is that it's so temporary...the comfort only lasts for a short time and nothing of real value comes from it.  I yearn, crave a longer lasting relationship with the almighty God who created me.  Getting His perspective on who I am in Him is helping me to fix the relationship with food.  Food is necessary as that's how God created me but God desires for me to be free from the lust of my eyes, pride of my flesh, and boasting.  Only through His word and spirit can this be accomplished. Thankfully it's a day by day journey and I'm excited to be on it.

First Sunday

So many questions on how to blog...how do I connect things to my blog? How do I gather followers? How do I make the blog visually appealing? Ultimately my deepest question is...Am I adequate enough to write what people can connect with? Hubby asked me one time why do I want to blog and my answer at the time was to get better at writing and seeing it on the World Wide Web is kind of cool! Those are still my reasons but now I've also been listening to my heart and I want to encourage, to be an encourager to others. I'm not sure what that looks like but I'm thinking I can do that through this blog.  Sometimes I feel like I'm late to the party but I'm excited to see what God does, He may grow this blog or He may lead me in another direction.  Now I just need to keep listening and watching!

1-4-14

Today I woke up with my new friend...headache.  For the last three weeks I keep waking up with it. It hurts and it can make me feel grumpy.  I also woke up thinking I've only got two days then school starts again, feeling ungrateful and pessimistic.  I made my coffee and sat down to read the Word and the extraordinary happened...my attitude shifted.  My new thought...I have another new day to see what God wants to show me.  He wants to do great things for me, through me and it's my job to be ready.  He has put desires on my heart and I believe He will work His purpose out for His good will.  "Amazement seized them all and they glorified God and were filled with awe saying ”we have seen extraordinary things today." Luke 5:26 

I want to see the extraordinary in today! 

Word for 2014

My word for this year is "deep". It started coming to me early last month while reading. I want to go deeper in my relationships with my family and friends...causing growth in our passions, I want to go deeper in my habits of eating right and moving more, I want the truth of God's word to go deeper in my heart, and I want to go deeper in my student's learning and understanding as well as my own. Ephesians 3: 17-19 are the verses I want to memorize and live this year, "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."