Down with the Cold

Well, even though I didn't want it, I got it-the dreaded cold! I am doing better today, although, it is still no fun.

Luke left this afternoon for the middle school retreat. Poor guy, he is just worn out. The good news is, he will be back tomorrow evening. While he's gone, I'm hoping to get in some reading and quiet time. I have to admit, I'm really yearning for the word of God. I think I'm really looking for Him to just speak to me. I have a lot of thoughts on my mind and I guess I would just really like to hear from Him.

This past Friday I had the opportunity to take a group of students to Leadership Rocks which is hosted by Jay Strack and Student Leadership University. This organization is amazing. What I'm really excited about is the fact that Foundation Academy will begin a Student Leadership Institute within the year and I have the opportunity of helping head this thing up. So, needless to say, I really need to hear from God as to how this "thing" will look on our campus.

I came across this scripture today that I just absolutely love. Romans 12:1-2:

"Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you."

I LOVE this scripture because it's so true! I know from personal experience that so many times I get boggled down into my everyday, ordinary life and in turn, I don't even think about how God may be using me or wants to use me. I tend to focus the on the ordinary without realizing what it is that God wants to do in my life. I tend to focus on everything that has to get done without realizing what a joy that stuff can be. As the scripture states, I become so well-adjusted that I just fit in and do without giving any of it any thought. I instead, don't focus on God and in turn, am not changed from the inside out.

I don't know about you, but is not the kind of life I want. I want to wake up each morning ready for God to do what He wants to do in my life. I want to realize the big and little things that God is doing within my ordinary life. And you know what's crazy, so many times what we tend to view as ordinary, God views as extraordinary. Oh that I may realize this on a consistent basis.

Ok, I think that's enough of my rambling. I'm off to do a tad bit more writing and reading of my Bible.

Jen :)