More and Less

     "Christianity isn’t about good people taking vitamins to be even better.
It’s good news for bad people who are sick and tired of failing to get better."  

from Ann Voskamp.  

      Why do I always start something good and then stop doing it?  I have no answer.  Maybe when I turn 52 in a couple of months (way too soon) I will be awarded the answer.  But when I have strayed away from the things that help me feel good and rich and true and joyful....eventually I weave my way back.  

     For example this morning I finally weaved my way back to catching up on the daily notifications I get from Ann Voskamp's blog, A Holy Experience.  As I'm reading each Wednesday's previous posts for 2014...catching up on The Year to Fly and The Jesus Project, I think to myself why have I been allowing Satan to ignore these reminders to dig in deep?  I read 5 weeks or maybe it was 6 weeks of posts and with each one my spirit has risen and joy has increased.  

     Some days it just seems....I don't know....to not read the Word is easier?  What?  That doesn't make any sense, yet that is what keeps happening.  Putting more of worthless, useless tasks ahead of time with Jesus.  Then expecting days to go smoother and easier.  What foolishness...but that's what you get when you are a fool.   

    So for today...I'm a little less a fool but of course still capable of utter foolishness.  Today I have embraced more of Jesus and my prayer and hope is that tomorrow I will embrace more of Jesus.

Penny