Getting Back to Basics

This week I have been focusing on making new healthy habits.  I am choosing to eat healthier foods, exercise regularly and get more rest.  As I look at my spiritual life I see the same choices being made.  Spending more time in the Word renewing my mind, taking my thoughts captive and casting down imaginations.  Confronting the lies in my own thought life that have kept me from moving forward.  As we begin to exercise both in the natural and spiritually there will be some pain and discomfort but as we stay focused and diligent and keep going even when we don't want to or feel like it or can't see any results we are building our selfs up.  It may take a while to see some results and others may begin to see them before we do but as we keeping going we will be rewarded.

Getting Back Into Routine.

I have made a deceison to start making some positive changes to help myself feel better.  I am changing some bad eating habits for some good ones.  I am getting into exercise and moving more and becoming more active.  As we go about our day maybe there are some habits that help our spiritual life that we have let go and become lax in doing or not seen the importance of maintaining them but as we make a effort to deceide to pick them back up and move forward we will see changes begin to take place.

Moving one step closer.

     I have not been keeping up with my blog as I should.
     
     In May we moved from a small town to a big city.  From  a house in to a apartment.  We have sold our house and this brings our family one step closer to being ready to move to Kenya to do mission work.
   
      I have found myself feeling isolated and alone and lonely a lot more.  Even though I have my family around and I attend church regularly and I go to monthly ladies meetings for fellowship yet even being around others I still feel I am alone.  I have found through searching my own heart and looking at my situation that I long for Africa.  I long for what I saw and I experienced over there.  The people we meet and encountered for the most part were warm open and inviting.  I have enjoyed talking to them and getting to know them.

    I have been finding myself to combat this getting back into more times of praise and fellowship with the Lord, bible reading and application.  I am finding that what I experienced over there I can have here in the presence of the Lord.  Yes I need friends and connections with people but I think a lot we try to make things happen instead of allowing God to bring them to us.