One of my favorite things about participating in this is having random people come to my blog, read about this and leave a comment. Seriously! It's encouraging to me. My blog has always been personal, for my family and friends, but over the last few years I've become such a sporadic poster I'm not sure even they read it anymore! Still, I don't think that's the kind of "share with someone else" we were challenged to do this week.
So let me just tell you, i didn't really share with someone else this week. I've been sharing along the way. My husband knows that the goal was family prayer - it's been a goal of ours for a while really - and we've got bedtime prayer down pretty well. It's still often a last minute gathering before one of us runs off to sit by the little guys crib while he goes to sleep. But we do it! My daughter often says "Wait we haven't had scripture!" if we are rushing to much before bed. It would be nice if prayer could join the ranks. How do we become enthusiastic about this? Make prayer something meaningful and powerful that we can all see the difference in our lives, so that we don't want to miss it?
I ran into two other snags this week. The first was our weekend trip to my in-laws. We didn't have family prayer for those days. The one night I tried I had really bad timing with a screaming 15 month old and just...chaos...so I sort of gave up on the gathering. How do you maintain those family rituals when traveling? The second is thinking ahead. My husband is about to start a schedule in which he will be working into bedtime. So, we have to make a change to have family prayer. Who is good at morning prayer? We've never been. I think it's because we like our sleep. So morning can be a rush!
If you read my first God sized dream post you might now that my real "dream" for 2013 is just something better than 2012. We ended up in a rather low place. I especially have a dream for less financial stress and I know God has to help us on that journey. Because I don't know what to do about it. Although my husband is working again (yay!) we have a gap to make up. Anyway, one of my ideas was to shelve the fear and make and sell some crochet. I have a lot of fears and excuses (I'm not that good. Lots of people crochet. Etc etc). And I don't expect it to make much, not that that is a big deal. My friend Brenda, who knew how to crochet but hadn't for years, liked some things I was making and picked up a hook. Sometimes we get together and work on a project. It's fun. And let me tell you, she is a machine. She loves cranking out projects. She got an extra benefit. She hadn't weighed herself in a while, got on the scale and has lost 8 pounds! She thinks it's because when she is sitting she is crocheting, not snacking. I think that is fabulous. And maybe there are some benefits to the things we do, that are of more worth then financial gain.
So sweet to hear your love from your family come through in your dreams--from your prayers to the creative work of your hands!
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