Busy Like A Crown

Hello, Blogosphere! This is officially my first blog post (on my own blog) ever. So congratulations to you readers. I don't know much about blogging, so hopefully my knowledge will grow in the next weeks, and my blog will look better and better all the time.

I actually didn't plan to have my blog up and running for a couple more weeks because I have been sooooo busy, but here I am. Which opens for my point. Just like almost everyone I know, I get very caught up in being busy. I have a full time real estate career, a husband, and two daughters (preteen and three). I love to voluteer with anything I can to try to make a difference God's kingdom. So I commit to everything I possibly can..... and wing it from there. And like I said, I do love it. But lately, I find myself juggling, and feeling a little overwhelmed. I have been praying my way through it, and so far, so good.

So very recently I was asked to help with a new project. It's exiting, and something I will thoroughly enjoy and will allow me to be creative, and I really want to participate, but I know it will require another weekly meeting and very likely consume more time this fall. So I have been praying about it. And I really feel that God wants me to do this, too. I have cleared my head and have questioned all of my motives and I got my answer. I have prayed a lot in the last few weeks that God would give me the opportunity to reach out to people that aren't saved. I love being on the worship team and being a part of the student ministry, but I often wonder how many people I witness to that don't already know Christ. I have also prayed that He would give me the opportunity to use all of the junk from my past to serve Him. I would love to see Him take everything that the devil tryed to destroy me with and use it for His glory. And I believe that this is that opportunity.

I heard one of my favorite pastors speak on grace once. The main part of the sermon that still sticks out to me is that we get way too caught up in our day to day lives and that we wear busy like a crown. We want to serve in God's Kingdom, but we're so busy. We want to spend more time with our families, but we're so busy. And we want to live our lives, but we're so busy.

So just this week, I have been watching my morning sermons, usually Joyce Meyer and T.D. Jakes. And I have been fed a lot on grace, and have been reminded that if I am relying on myself to accomplish all that God has planned for me, then my heart is not in the right place. I need God's grace to accomplish anything at all for His kingdom. I have been reminded, yet again, it's not by works, but by faith. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. And I can enjoy doing all these things, too.