All at once

Work is really busy with a new boss. The beginning of the fall schedule has started with school, youth group, part-time work, Bible study and praise practice.  All of this with renewing mortgage, mix up in hubby's contract and reno's underway to the bathroom.  How do we make our lives so busy?  What do I need to be saying "no" to and what should I be saying "yes" to. 

How do I discern what I should be doing and what I should not be doing?  How do I reduce the stresses and the distractions from what is important.

If you look at my schedule you would you see that God is important in my life, that my spouse is important, that my family is important?  Would it seem that work creeps in and overshadows other parts of my life?

It is interesting to see that the business of life can muddle the time that seek to spend with God.  Making my Bible time a priority helps, but it seems lately that it is easily sidestepped.
Praying that what needs to be a priority is at the top of the pile.

Time with God
Time with spouse
Time with family
Friends
School

Now what to do about everything else...
God bless.

Prayer Works

I sometimes kick myself when I realize that I have been agonizing over a problem and have ignored the most obvious.  Take it to God in prayer???  Why is it sometimes the very last thing I think of?

I have prayed and prayed about his drinking!  Something changed and thought the drinking has not stopped completely, it has reduced significantly.  So why do I forget to be thankful for this?  Why do I forget that it will take time for our relationship to heal?  Why do I forget that God should be at the forefront and be the first I take the challenges to?

I know that God is working in his own way, but I have expressed to my husband there are only two things I want right now.  To go to counselling together and for him to come to church with me.  I am praying that he can see his way through to do meeting these though it has been over a month since I expressed this to him.

I will keep praying, but am truly thankful for the change in him and the progress so far.  I know that God will help us and that we need His help to keep going and pray that I don't forget to lean on God all the way.  The days when emotions interfere. The days when a drink seems more important. The days when I am not paying attention. The days when I need to be more supportive, attentive and forgiving. 

Praying for continued progress and further distance from the drinking and praying that everything gets worked out.

God bless.