:. lessons & questions .:

Such a busy few weeks. So many jumbled thoughts. So many huge life-lessons.
Without going into any detail, here are a few things I've learned lately, along with new questions that have cropped up:

• Just when you think you have a bit of free time ahead, God can step in and remind you that your 'free-time' isn't 'me-time'. Your days belong to Him. And He probably has a very good idea of how that time should be used.
• It is sometimes easier to serve complete strangers than those closest to you.
• My patience definitely has limits. Does it count for anything if you are loving on the outside . . . but CRANK-EEEE on the inside?
• I had no idea just how selfishly I live my life. Putting others first is easy to talk about, but much harder to DO, day after day after day after day after day after day after day.
• I'm definitely not a fan of pity-parties. But how often am I guilty of that very thing? (Pity, party of one?)
• Little children are a joy, a delight, a sweet aroma. They easily fill up an emotional tank that has been drained dry. What would I do without my grands?
• How do Jesus' words that we are to become like little children mesh with the above statement? How do you recapture the guileless ease with which little ones live life?
• How do you show Jesus to a dying world . . . when you're busy with your own to-do list?
• How do you come to the place where you want what God wants, more than your own agenda?

And finally:

• What would I do without my children? Yes, my grands are a delight, but my kids are a blessing that cannot be measured. Thanks for all the love, you guys!