Living life...

New Year......... I am sure so many great things are on the way. Last year was awesome! I'd say probably one of, quite possibly maybe even my favorite year ever.  The # one thing on my mind us usually losing weight, blah blah...not this time.  What is on my mind and has been on my mind for some time now is living life. 

I am so guilty of letting to much time go by without doing all the things I want and even need to do. I am even more guilty of not spending time with the people that mean so much to me. They probably don't even know how much they mean to me. Two things in life are certain, death & taxes. So this year, no scratch that, from this moment forward I want to live my life as if there were no tomorrow.   We aren't promised tomorrow, really, we're not even promised the rest of today.  Each morning I tell GOD how much I love HIM & how thankful I am that HE has given me another day. May sound habitual, but honestly it's sincere.

I realized just a moment ago when I was logging in to write this blog that I spend more time thinking about life, and all the things I wanna do & accomplish than I spend working toward them. Crazy huh. I spend more time dreaming of what it will be like when I get my life together and go and do and see all the things, and people I want . What's more precious than silver, gold and all the money in the world? Time! And here I am giving it away like 4o going north. Yeap dreaming about that life and mine is passing me by.

Three more things I wanna share. They keep coming back to me so I must share.

  Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.  

(This speaks to me so much because I can't tell you how many decisions I have made and mistakes I have made due to the fact that I NEVER stopped to consult with HIM and ask HIM what do you want for me? What is your plan for my life? I love you, you have created me specifically for_______ ________. I am getting it now. HE is showing me and HE is blessing me immeasurably.)

  Romans 12 ^1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. 

(This one speaks to me because it's for me about realizing that yes, this is MY life but it came from HE who created me, I should live it and honor it by living for HIM and Honoring HIM, and IF I do then I can't go wrong. He will work it all out for me.)

1 Corinthians 6 :19 Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you. God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body. 

(This one speaks to me because well......... we only have one body. Once it's broken down and unhealthy that's it.  Also how can we (I ) function at the capacity I need to in order to accomplish what HE has called me to do? Run a business, be a mom, be a wife, take care of a home that HE blessed me with?  The list goes on....... You get the point.

I hope you all are having a lovely start to a fresh new year.