Sunday!

I have a love/hate relationship with Sundays.  I love going to Church and worshipping the Lord.  We recently changed Churches and this experience has been much more enjoyable for me since we made the change.

Please don't get me wrong, I believe that no matter the music or the sermon, that Worship is about me and the Lord and not about those other things.  I was determined to stay and work through those things and I had stayed a year past when Jason was ready to leave.  However, I believe that the Church should be an example to how we should live our lives, ministering to the community that we live in.  When the decision was made by our Church to not participate in a city wide event that ministers to our community, I was done.  The very next Sunday, we were in a new Church.  I love our new Church and the message today was specifically designed by God, just for me.

I said a few days earlier that this year my focus was on my Husband, serving Christ by ministering to my Hubby.  Today's sermon was based on Obedience.  Matthew 21: 23-32.  The message today was about commitment and passion to our commitments, about saying "yes" and continuing to follow through with the "yes" even when we are done and really want to just do nothing.  I jotted down some notes during the sermon today:  True repentance means obedience.  In Matthew 7:21 it says that not everyone who says Lord, Lord will enter the Kingdom of God.  We have to follow up with action.  Commitment is better than Pasion.  Does my Passion drive my commitments?  Showing Jason that I love him is more important than just saying that I love him.  I must live in obedience.  Being (change) is better than just saying (change).  I just need to do it.  I don't need to announce that I'm going to do it.  Once I start, people will see and know because of my actions.  (Reminds me of that song - "and they will know we are Christians by our love, by our love, yes they will know we are Christians by our love.")

I know this is a lot of rambling and what's the point?  The point is that this was the reminder that I needed to stay focused to my task for 2015.  It's still very early in this new year.  We are only on day 4.  I still have plenty of time to decide that I no longer want to work towards my mission.  Today was just a little reminder and affirmation that obedience to God means that we follow through with our commitments even when we don't want to.  My goal is to remember this always.

In other news. . .I did get quite a few things done today. . . I:

• Made my bed
• Went to Church (I did skip out on Sunday school)
• Cooked dinner for today
• Cooked breakfast for the whole week for myself (with two vegetables)
• Made my lunches for the whole week (with two vegetables)
• Cleaned up the dinner dishes and started the dishwasher
• Cleaned off the surfaces in the kitchen of all the paper clutter (there are still a few outstanding items but they are charging cords and other items that have always been in the kitchen that I need to find a better place for)

I normally take a nap on Sunday.  I'm feeling very accomplished because I powered through and stayed the course.  Tomorrow is back to school and back to our regular routines.  I'm a little nervous about maintaining what I've started.  My challenges also officially start tomorrow - two fruits or vegetables with breakfast, lunch and dinner and drinking in ozs of water 1/2 my body weight.  These are challenges/changes that are being implemented this week in an effort to make incremental change that lasts the whole year and becomes a life long habit.

Till the next time!
Michelle