Daily, Daily and More Daily

Wow, church searching, house painting, Pregnancy Center training, planning and tempt taking for a baby. I am ready to get away and relax. I am looking foreword to Thanksgiving weekend when Dan and I are getting away to a Bed and Breakfast. I am ready for a get away since a good stiff drink is out of the question. If only I could share with you the chaotic path I have been on as I am determined to get pregnant. Any one who has been down the road of basal thermometers, message boards, articles, and ovulation calculators know exactly what I am going through. Besides the fact that it's actually stressful, it's pretty funny. I am actually going to end it at that for now. Why does living life have to be just so daily?

I had such a wonderful time praying through the Beatitudes this morning. It is the trials that make the sweetness of joy palpable. I think that it's a no brainer if your raised in Sunday school, it's a mantra you know well but Jeez Louis, I feel like I'm learning it all over again. The calm quiet moments when I am just one on one with God are sanity saving moments. One thing that I have been spending a lot of brain power on lately is the world's idea of "used for a mighty purpose" and God's idea. They are so different. I challenge you to think about it. We are so inundated with our cultures expectations for us that sometimes we apply them to God's plans. A good friend of mine told me she believed God was going to use her in a big way. I had to laugh to myself because I have felt the same way only I had the totally wrong idea. I was looking at it from the world's point of view where I was going to be Ms. Popular Christian with all the right stuff and everyone would admire and look up to me. Where is my entourage?! Well then God brought to my mind some people that were called to very big things; Mary, Paul, Jesus, Martin Luther. I wonder what Mary thought of her "big calling" at two in the morning with a teething baby and all the glamorous stuff that this entails. Was she wondering where her groupies were or when she would get her own Magazine or show on Bravo? I'm starting to get as Dan would say, a paradigm shift. Speaking of Dan, I just read to him what I wrote and his response was, "Didn't you write that before?" Like I said, daily and sometimes repeatedly.

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Michelle Johnson said…
Part of being a Christian is maintnence. Just like any relationship, you have to work at it. And going through the basics, over and over is part of it. Even the most seasoned marriages, and relationships with Christ, need to go back to the basics. It is frustrating when it comes to Christ to think that we need to go back to the basics, but we need to go back to the basics with our husbands, you know dates!
I love and miss you so much!
October 04, 2007 11:29 AM
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