The Eagles Have Landed...Holla!!

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I have just returned from dropping Austin (7) off @ 2nd grade, Ella (4) off @ half-day Preschool, and getting a coffee (a necessary reward for getting thus far in the game). Seven years now as a SAHM (Stay-at-Home Mom) and now a new door is gradually opening.

People ask: "What will you do with the time?!??"

Ooh, ooh, ooh-I can think of 100 things! While I am praying about what comes next work or volunteering-wise; for now, my first desire is to get back to one love I have been greatly neglecting...WRITING!! ;) I have had tons of quotes, ideas, lessons, and failures that have accumulated lately-so much so-I started carrying a little notebook in my purse because I cannot stand losing ideas...who knows some of them might actually be good ones...maybe..so anywho...

Thought I would take today to chat about what's going on for me right now and maybe tomorrow I will look back @ some of the aforementioned lessons and quotes.

A huge deal has been my choice to change what I eat and drink. You've heard 1Cor 10:31- "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." Yeah, me too, I think I even wrote it in a Christmas Card once a while back I liked it so much. You know what I have been up to the last 30 years? (Yes, world, I turned the BIG 3-0 this summer) Well, I have been going out of my way with all of my energy to do the EXACT opposite! And not just a little bit, but everyday and all day.

Ok, so you could Romans 3:23 me and say that we all "fall short of the glory of God," but since struggling in the area of eat/drink is probably one of the most accepted/least frowned upon sins in the church world-I have been able to excuse myself out of dealing with this idol for a LONG time...like..oh..my entire life. More about this struggle in the future-but for now I share this to say that this was a huge coup d'etat of what my life is centered around and a much needed yielding to the Spirit!!

BTW-I write this blog not because I have all this or that figured out, but because I think all of us (Christian or not) have similar struggles with different names. I want to be authentic, I want to be real, and I want to be positive about everything. I can't promise I will not disagree with people, issues, etc in my soiree in the blogosphere-but I hope to do it in a way that is ultimately useful, encouraging, and done with love (and humor).

In the little bit I have blogged so far in my life, I have had two people (that I was once close friends with) come to me and say they felt talking about Jesus or anything "religious" was being preachy. To all friends, family, other people randomly reading this blog that are in that category, I would tell what I told them:

If it is where you're coming from that the discussion or mention of Jesus, the Bible, faith, etc. are just not a topic you like to discuss- I can totally respect that. I do try to go out of my way to only give a glimpse of what MY journey has been-not to tell people what they should do. I find that there is a difference. ;) Yes, there will be times I will ask questions of Christians in a critically thinking manner-but I do not expect that those who are not will completely understand or relate to where I am coming from.

We are all passionate about different things. There may be something you feel deeply about and would make my eyes glaze over because I cannot relate. I would not find it rude or an invasion of privacy at all for you to share about that with me.

Also, my blog will always have a lot to say about how I think "religion" is ridiculous and how life is not about religion. I want to live my life open-handed and as an open book. Anyone who chooses to read what I write is welcome to be just as genuine with me with all of who they are-and all I want is for my blog to be more about the ways God is working on one broken soul than anything in the neighborhood of being judgmental to those who do not see the world the same way as I do.

Now that I went on about that...guess I will have to bid adieu til tomorrow! Peace.