Sometimes I just feel like I am under attack. It never ceases to amaze me at how one little sickness can completely derail everything that I have going on. I am very thankful that we all made it through Christmas in good health, but 2 days after our big Christmas party the whole family gets slammed with a stomach bug.
Yesterday was supposed to be my first day back to work. I went into the office and came home after a couple of hours realizing I needed to stay in bed all day. Today is a work from home day split with entertaining children because Faith is the one stuck in bed today. The house is a wreck after all of the Christmas aftermath and I feel like I am buried under it all.
I believe that there is spiritual warfare out there that we cannot see. I believe this because of times like these. When I have plans to get caught up, organize, prepare, plan, or make big steps forward when it comes to my spiritual nature, I get bombarded with this kind of thing. By the time I clean up the mess and get caught up again, I will be back in the daily grind of working and the business that is my life.
My solution is to keep pressing on. Lean into it and go. Since when have my plans ever worked out better than God’s plans. He has my back, so I got nothing to worry about.
Looking ahead to 2010. I have high hopes for another good year of growth and learning. Faith and I are going to take Mark Batterson’s advice and read through the entire Bible this year. We will be reading The Daily Message. I know it will be a challenge because I have never been able to complete a Bible in a year reading before. I think that we have the motivations in place this year to do it. I have big plans as always for my small group and am looking forward to the bonding of community that is possible there. I also have great goals for my health this year that I have already began working on. The Holidays are great for derailing my weight loss plan, but we will be getting on track immediately.
I will continue to share my progress and learnings here. It has been a great challenge lately for me to find time to write on this blog and share everything that is going on. I hope to do much better this year with my time management so that I will be able to add some goodness to the Internets through this blog.
