Get Moving!  Lately I have found myself in front of the computer or tv more and more, wasting my life away.  There are so many better things to be doing.  Writing and encouraging note to a friend, praying and ministering to  my girls, a friend.  My life is slowly wrapping itself in selfishness again.  Not that I was ever not selfish, but there is a big difference in my life when it is devoted to others and when it is devoted to myself.  Not only am I much happier but so are the people that surround me.  I could spend the time I spend in front of the tv and computer training my girls in righteousness...teaching them how to interact with each other, training them to be keepers of their homes.  Changing my focus in life could indeed affect the life of everyone around me, teaching them to put others first and loving others more than they love themselves.  The other day my little 5 year old asked me to play with her princess toys and I told her when the movie is over.  HMMM.....what is more important...geez....conviction.  I am trying to read daily the Utmost for His Highest and for the last week or so...if not longer since I missed a lot at the beginning of the month, but it is talking about this very thing...we should not focus on anything else but living the life of Jesus Christ.  Not trying focusing so much on what you should be doing, but just loving others, being their for them.  We should not be going through life alone, that is not how God created us. 

Lately I have seen some of this in my life, struggles that I have faced in the last couple of weeks.  When I call someone or let them know that I am struggling as ask for prayer, they stop and pray for me right there and it makes such a huge difference in my life.  They encourage me and remind me that Gods Power is in my life and that He is working everything out to His purpose, whether it be building my character by devoloping a certain character in my life or it being a consequence for a choice that I made in the past.  But having those friend there that are willing to take a moment to pray for me...it is refreshing and it helps me get over myself and move on to loving others again.

There are two songs that I have come to love, one by Jeremy Camp and the other by MercyMe.  Here are the lyrics:

MercyMe, So Long Self:

Well if I come across a little bit distant
It's just because I am
Things just seem to feel a little bit different
You understand
Believe it or not but life is not apparently
About me anyways
But I have met the One who really is worthy
So let me say

So long, self
Well, it's been fun, but I have found somebody else
So long, self
There's just no room for two
So you are gonna have to move
So long, self
Don't take this wrong but you are wrong for me, farewell
Oh well, goodbye, don't cry
So long, self

Stop right there because I know what you're thinking
But no we can't be friends
And even though I know your heart is breaking
This has to end
And come to think of it the blame for all of this
Simply falls on me
For wanting something more in life than all of this
Can't you see

So long, self
Well, it's been fun, but I have found somebody else
So long, self
There's just no room for two, so you are gonna have to move
So long, self
Don't take this wrong, but you're wrong for me, farewell
Oh well, good-bye, don't cry
So long

Don't feel so bad (don't feel so bad)
There'll be better days (there'll be better days)
Don't go away mad (but by all means)
Just go away,go away

So long, self
Well, it's been fun, but I have found somebody else
So long, self
There's just no room for two, so you are gonna have to move
So long, self
Don't take this wrong, but you're wrong for me, farewell
Oh well, good-bye, don't cry
So long self
farewell, goodbye (so long self)
farewell, goodbye (so long self)
farewell, goodbye (so long self)
farewell, goodbye (so long self)
farewell, goodbye (so long self)
 

And Empty Me, by Jeremy Camp

Holy fire burn away
My desire for anything
That is not of you and is of me
I want more of you
And less of me

Empty me, empty me, fill me
With you, with you

I pray that my life will be a beacon for the broken hearted and hopeless so that I can share the peace of love of Jesus Christ.  Am I available to drop my current agenda to comfort and love a friend or stranger who is in need of hope and encouragement?  Am I willing to put my comforts aside to stop and talk to someone, a stranger or a friend, in need?  What is my agenda for the day....myself...or others?  SO LONG SELF, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE!!!