I know, I know... I've totally dropped the ball on this whole blogging thing! I promise I have great intentions, but things have gotten busy & the Lord is just SWAMPING me (so it feels) with SO much... don't get me wrong, it's all really good & to be honest, I am thriving in this season. But to find time for blogging can end up seeming like another distraction, which as you may know, I'm trying to rid my life of as much as possible.
I think this post will simply be an update of what my life is looking like & an overview of what the Lord is doing/birthing in my heart.
I have a friend of mine watching the ladies for me 3 mornings a week, & my mother-in-law watching them 1 morning a week; a couple hours each. In case you didn't do the math, that equals 4 mornings a week! It is SUCH a blessing to me! I always use that time to go to the Prayer Room & then run an errand if need be. This time is SO valuable to me... it is fueling my walk with the Lord & it's encouraging a better relationship between my girls & I... you know the whole phrase, "distance makes the heart grow fonder", well I have definitely found this to be true with parenting! If I can get a couple hours away by myself, coming home is EXCITING & I take SO much more joy in them as babies & find that I am taking joy in the little things with them. I am naturally wired to want to move on to the next thing as quickly as possible & that is hard with children, just desiring for their next stage to come, but the Lord is teaching me to take it all in & enjoy them thoroughly! Anyways, I consider myself SO blessed to be getting time away like this, knowing that most moms do not.
Josh gets home from work (still working a temporary construction job for his dad) around 4:45, we eat dinner, play with the ladies & have family time, put the girls down for bed around 7pm, clean up & head to bed ourselves! Josh has really early mornings for work & I need like 10 hours of sleep to run on (minor exaggeration!) so we do our best to get to bed as early as possible. My friend calls me "grandma" when making fun of my bed time... I'm totally willing to take on that name! different seasons bring major changes to life, don't they?
As for my relationship with God... I'm pretty sure that moving out to Colorado is one of the best things I've done. I'm absolutely LOVING it! Yes, the Lord had to work on me for over a year to break me down & rip things out of my hands to actually get me to move away from my beloved state of Minnesota but now that He has taken me here, I soooo understand why! I am thriving in this place in a beautiful way... I'll write a post about that to give better detail... I could go on & on...
but anyways,
The Lord has woo'ed me into the wilderness & He truly is speaking tenderly to me & releasing His heart into me in a profound way. As I have alluded to in past posts, there is just SO much He is doing. You know how He usually will have you focus on one thing at a time? well sometimes I feel like He has me doing a hundred different things at once... It's overwhelming, but in a glorious way.
Here a few areas He is taking me through...
the sleeping bride. where the church is at today & the reality of where it's headed & how the Lord feels about it.
the Song of Solomon & the Book of Revelation. I am in a girls Bible study where we are reading these two books side-by-side & allowing the Lord to reveal the Bridegroom heart alongside the King & Judge... all one Man, just different characteristics. It's SO good to have that study once a week.
the book of daniel. what does it look like to be a generation wholly consecrated to the Lord & to be ones who do all for the glory of God (whether eating or drinking) ...to have the favor of the Lord on you in such a profound way that it shakes the kings & kingdoms of the earth.
inner healing. The Lord has given me a counseling gifting & He is currently have me read the book Pure Heart by Tom & Donna Cole. I highly recommend it for anyone desiring to walk through inner healing. http://store.ihop.org/store/product/9138/Pure-Heart%3A-Restoration-of-the-Heart-through-the-Beatitudes/
the life of Jesus the Messiah. I don't know the man Jesus & I need to... taking a class through IHOP... it's called The Life of Christ in the Gospels by Stephen Venable (one of my favorite teachers from Kansas City). I'm sure this class will spark many blog posts from me in the near future... so stay tuned!
If you would like to read more about this class or even take it yourself, go to this website: http://eschool.ihop.org/catalog.php?item=68
well, that about sums up my life as of late... This turned out to be much longer than I expected... sorry to blab!
Hopefully I'll start writing more often again!
kK
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