There goes half a year...

Oh boy, if I could put an ashamed face here, I would.  I can't believe it's been 9 months since I blogged-I'm a bad blogger!  In my defense, it's been a busy year.  Those years just keep getting busier the older I get.  So, it's September, and the kids are back to school, and life is swinging back into that semi-crazy rattle of homework and school and after school activities, and I've been thinking that maybe I can do it better this year.  Maybe I can be less blow uppy with the kids, and maybe I can be more enthusiastic about work, and maybe I can lose these 15 pounds-and then I think, maybe I just need to shift my perspective.  You see, I've been pushing my kids this past week with school starting and all to be thinking of God first and others before themselves, but I tend to get  a big FAIL in that department myself a lot of times.   Kids are such mimes, and they really do absorb what they see.  It just made me realize that I need to be burning for God, I need to love Him with my heart, might, mind and strength, because He's God and I am created by Him, and because my time with these precious little munchkins is already half gone.   I don't want to let life get in the way of God anymore, I want God to get in the way of life.  I want to be so passionately on fire for Him that every thought, word and action is no longer quite my own.  And lastly, I want to live so abandoned to Him that I actively long for His return while joyfully pursuing the lost and broken to tell them of this great Savior who can make them whole again-that is my wish list.  It's definitely going to take God to get me there :)  But isn't that what life is about?  Learning how to pursue the One incredible, magnificent, mind blowing God that we have-and THAT'S what I want my children to come away with when they're 18 and heading out the door to the rest of their lives.  I pray daily that it is so.  Shalom in Yeshua :)