About Time!

So as it's been about a month and a half since I've last posted, I figured that tonight is the night, to make my resurgence in the blogging world. This "experience" (of not posting but really wanting to) has taught me something which I have to continually learn over and over. I've learned that when things don't go as well as they should or I am not as consistent as I should be, it is important not to get bogged down in what could have been. The thought that has kept me from writing the last couple of weeks is the thought that, since it has been so long since I've posted, my next post had better be something incredibly mind blowing, something no one has ever thought of before. (Either that or I need to make 10 ("random" number) consecutive posts to make up for the weeks of the lack there of.) When really, this is my pride speaking. I think that I have something to prove, that I am really such a great person and the reason I've delayed so long is so I can bestow upon you something that will completely change your life. Upon realizing those things won't happen, I decided to just sit down and type...

In the past I've run into the same sort of thing when I say I am going to start out the year right, on January 1st reading the Bible everyday for a year to get through the Bible. So the first week goes great! Then the next week, I miss a day or two, and so on, and I feel like the next week I really have to work to get caught up. And pretty soon, I'm so far behind, it seems impossible to catch up, so I give up. But really, when something like that happens, I need to just take today as a "start over day." It does matter what I've done in the past, from this point forward things are going to be different. (And this "start over" point may happen several times. It's important not to get discouraged by this. Essentially it is inevitable. That doesn't mean we can be lazy, but it is an opportunity to get back on the right track when we've messed up.)

I'm so thankful this is how God operates. He is willing to accept us, no matter what we've done, no matter where we are, as long as we are willing to put our faith in him and strive to be obedient to His will. I don't know how He does it. I sure couldn't...I guess that's why I'm not Him.

If you're in somewhat of the same situation...do not get or stay discouraged with where you are at. Don't worry about how much you've messed up in the past or how much more you think you should have done. Whether that's reading the Bible, loving people, writing blogs, spending time with people, schoolwork, praying, giving monetarily to the kingdom, serving others, etc... Cast off these feelings of guilt that the missteps of your past has caused, and take today as a day to start over.

All this reminds me of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. And in some senses...this is exactly what I want to say and exactly what I need to hear sometimes.

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor.
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door.

You never will get where you’re going
If you never get up on your feet.
Come on, there’s a good tail wind blowing
A fast walking man is hard to beat.

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor.
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door.

If you want to change your direction,
If your time of life is at hand;
Well, don’t be the rule, be the exception;
A good way to start is to stand.

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor.
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door.

If I want to change the reflection
I see in the mirror each morn.
You mean that it's just my election
To vote for a chance to be reborn.

Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking cross the floor.
Put one foot in front of the other
And soon you’ll be walking out the door.

...Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. ----- Philippians 4:12-14

Thanks for reading!