Living in This Moment.....

This is a picture of my morning at 5:30am. The dogs woke me up because it was time for them to eat AND my Benadryl had just wore off. I have a stuffy nose, ugh. While you are pregnant you can take certain medicines but not all. And I did not have one congestion medicine in my cabinet that was on the "approved" list. So I made myself a little "sauna". I boiled some water, then put a towel over my head, & breathed it in! I sat there for about 10min & it really did help. I`m going to the store later to get medicine but that did the trick for now.



If I haven`t said it before, I`m saying it again.....GO CHECK OUT THIS BOOK, "Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl." I finished it this morning & I was actually sad. I think I`m going to go back through & highlight somethings I can to work into my daily life.

The last section today really hit me. I had talked about in a recent post about Matt & I being frustrated because we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We are pretty much at 2 months till we move home. We are so ready to get our lives started, getting jobs, a house, & being with family. Our "plan" is move into the ranch house, Matt work for my Dad while he searches for jobs. Once he gets a job, we will buy a house, have the baby & then I will get a job too. This is all we talk/think about right now. I even found a house in my hometown we both LOVE and the price dropped recently. Well, this morning I read this verse in my book, "Many are the plans in a man's {woman's} heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails," Proverbs 19:21. Well Hello God, are you talking to me??? Then Lysa goes on to say,

God promises many times in the Bible that He has a plan for our lives. Since our lives are lived moment by moment, that must mean that He has a purpose for right now. I stopped looking for God in this moment. I stopped lingering with Him and considering His activity right in front of me. I stopped remaining and abiding closely with Him.

I started viewing this moment as something I just had to get through so I could move on to better things in the future, my great plans. I wrongly discerned that only meeting my future goals would bring satisfaction, significance, and self-worth.

The second paragraph is what really hit me. I`m looking at these next two months as something to just "get through". I`m ignoring the present and am caught up in the future that "I" not God have planned out. I should be looking for God & what He wants from me in these next two months. My husband is carrying this load on his shoulders, he is the head of the household. Maybe God wants me to encourage my husband, instead of leaning on him so much. Whatever the plan is it is not mine to make, it is God's. Easy to say, harder to actually think. Do you also plan, plan, plan for the future & ignore this moment now? I`ll admit that is exactly what I have been doing. I just love it when you read something & it hits you that God was talking right to YOU!