If I get-it-all-together, how long do I have to keep it up? We can’t rely on self to get-it-all-together and experience freedom in Christ at the same time. You just can’t go two ways at the same time.
I recently had a very spiritual AHA moment: If I get it all together, where will I put it? And by the way, what is IT? Can anyone actually define the IT in get-IT-altogether?
When your day starts like this…“I don’t have any clean underwear, Mommy!” 15 minutes until the bus comes. Rushing to the dryer, I open the door only to discover that I forgot to turn on the dryer when I changed the load.
A good list can produce an almost magical kind of productivity. But when your list becomes THE LIST, it’s all too easy to discover the dark side of list making. Do you struggle with the dark side of THE LIST?
My mother was a fan of list-keeping. Both a hobby and an art form, she raised a simple tool for organization to a sacred practice, bringing us all closer to God.My mother lived by THE LIST, which was clamped to our harvest gold side-by-side fridge with a magnet. THE LIST was filled with items to buy, errands to run, and events to attend. I did not inherit my mother’s organizational DNA…
Though we celebrate Thanksgiving as a holiday, filled with feasting, family, and friends, thanksgiving is for every day. In reality, thankfulness is an orientation of the heart rather than an activity or event. Thankfulness seeps out of our very pores when we have our eyes open to the goodness…
