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Summer is here and I am finding it less desirable to sit at the computer. I'm not sure whether it is summer itself, or this new place God has me.
While preparing for camp, God released in me a new freedom, the freedom to be and think creatively. Something just clicked inside me while I was preparing the memory verse highway for camp. I had a paintbrush in my hand. I was mixing colors. I was using different mediums and brushes for different effects.
When I returned from camp and caught up on my sleep, my desire was to work on the altered book. Creating the two pages was so much fun. The whole family helped me with thoughts and ideas and placement and color. I am eager to work on it more! God keeps giving me this great visuals and ideas about expressing who He is through this book. Anyway, this new freedom has also released in me less of a desire to sit in front of the computer. I think God is pushing me to live outside of my ever expanding box, not just make my box bigger.
Camp also had a serious impact on me. Since I am an introvert, it is so easy for me to find excuses to stay within my comfort zone, but I was so unbelievably blessed by giving all this up for the sole purpose of being an available, nurturing, godly counselor for these girls. I don't want to come home and keep things the way they were. While it is easy for me to keep busy and not make time or effort with people outside of my family except in blogger land, I realize how wrong this is. So while it is not my nature, I am praying for God to push me out the door of life into the lives of others even when I don't "feel" like it.
So what does this have to do with blogging? When I blog, I feel the responsibility that comes with blogging. I completely agree with Trinity Prep School's Seven Habits of Highly Effective Homeschool Bloggers. Blogging is an interactive thing, or what would be the reason for posting our thoughts and lives for others to see? If I blog, I also care about what others are blogging. So when I sit down to make an entry, I also take time to visit my friends and some other random blogs. This takes time. I have found the time invested is so worth it, but the time investment needs to be managed. If I can sit down for an hour a day and blog, but can't make it to my widow friend, Betty's, for an hour visit, there is a problem in my priorities. The easier thing is for me to sit here, so that is what I do.
Now I am on a quest to find balance in blogging. Blogging has been an incredible blessing to me. I love to write, and have found this to be a great thought-provoking outlet for this love. I also have been challenged to rethink many issues about what others have blogged. Because I am trying to find this balance, I will not be blogging as frequently, nor catching up with my friends as frequently.
God desires for us to redeem the time.
Colossians 4:5-6 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Ephesians 5:15-17 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
It is my responsibility to prayerfully blog rather than just do it because the computer chair is empty. I need to seek God's specific plan for my day before I whittle away my time doing what I do every day.
So summer is here. The swimming pools are open. The garden is growing. The mosquitos are buzzing. Relationships are waiting to be nurtured. What am I doing? I'm diving in (thanks Steven Curtis Chapman).
The really wonderful thing about this is that when you receive a comment from me, you will know that God specifically sent me your way!
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