Heavy on my heart

I really feel like God wanted me to share this message. I love my church and every message is wonderful in its own way, but this past Sunday God really spoke to me and changed my perspective this week.

God wants us to live a life full of joy, not just on special holidays but everyday.

More joy in one ordinary day than they get in all their shopping sprees. At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, for you, God, have put my life back together. Psalm 4:7-8

3 simple ways to monitor your life:

1. Are you loving life? Do you really, really enjoy and love your life? In this moment, on this day, the day God gave us, are we loving it? Instead of loving today we think "if we can only have this, or do that." We need to live in the moment of today. 2 Corinthians 6:10, As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

I love that question above. As a mom with two small children, sometimes I forget to live in the moment. I tend to think, if Wyatt would just do this, when she sleeps through the night it will be great, if only we can get Wyatt potty trained. (It was like the pastor was talking to me, because he used both of the examples I just listed and that's exactly how I feel right now. When they are older and no longer in need of our reassure at night or praise on the potty, I will miss it. I will long for the days when McKinley cried for me every 3 hours, Wyatt woke up once a night asking to be covered up or both kids are crying in the back of the car and all we can do is laugh. I will miss those days. I forget to live in the moment and cherish every.single.last.second with my precious babies. I want to stop looking ahead or looking back and just be in the moment. Love my life now.

2. Am I loving people? Do I love people? I don't want bitterness to rob me of the gladness that God wants me to have. Is there something I need to let go of?

3. Am I loving God? Do I love God? Am I passionately in love with him? Instead of focusing on the goodness of God, we tend to focus on the good things God promises. I need to fall back in love with him.


Live in the moment. Love life. Love people. Passionate pursue a relationship with God.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

All night long

As I sit here pumping in bed at 3:30 in the morning, I wonder how I got my little one to sleep all night long in his crib! I'm watching wiggle and move on the baby monitor and thank God that he can now sleep all night with no help! Me on the other hand, well I'm trying to keep that milk supply up and create a supply for when we go out of town. When will my days of All Night Long come? - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Read more

We all need friends

I remember almost a year ago when a good friend of mine invited me to a lunch group, Friday's at noon. At that time in my life I needed it! I needed to get out and meet new friends, other ladies with children about the same age, going through the same thing. This was a life saver for me. I am not a very outgoing person and it's hard to make friends when you don't have a full time job. Long story made short.... I made some GREAT friends in that group. As all good things to do though, things changed, people moved on and life became a little crazy for all of us. So the lunch group is starting up again and even though some people have left, we have some new faces to get to know! Wednesday a couple of us went out for a ladies night out and it was great! Two new people for me to get to know and I feel like I have made two new life long friends. It's so refreshing to just have a night out with the ladies and yes, we may spend the whole night talking about our babies and what t...
Read more

First trip to the ER

Image
Yesterday was a day of firsts! First time to try to potty training and first trip to the ER. Here is how we ended up there..... He woke up feeling good and we had a nice start to potty training! He didn't eat a lot of breakfast but some days he does and others he doesn't so I didn't think much about it. When lunch time rolled around he still didn't eat. He then became very cranky and uninterested in the potty thing so I let my dad take him up for his nap. He normally goes down pretty easy but today he didn't. He said that his tummy hurt and couldn't get comfortable. He finally fell asleep but didn't stay asleep long. He moved all around and cried out a couple times then finally woke up. He was NOT himself. He cried and wanted to be held. Then all of a sudden he would be fine. Then minutes later he would say his tummy hurt, then drop to his knees and cry and move around trying to get comfortable. It was so sad. My parents wanted him to spend the night si...
Read more