By HIS Grace

Happy Monday! Lately, my posts have been sporadic and I do apologize. I was talking with my husband and sharing with him how this blog has become a part of my life and I am ministered by it just like you are and through it, I have connected with you and we have become a community.  So lately, I have felt disconnected from all of you.  But it's good to be back and back on track with posting daily. So before I get into things with me; "how are you, how are things going in your life?"  "What decisions have you had to make that the Lord has been pressing you on?" "Has there been a shift in your life; good or bad?" Where ever you are today in your life, I just want to encourage you to keep pressing and keep seeking the Lord. In this new year, I find myself doing a lot of self-assessing; holding myself accountable on things, taking note of my strengths and weaknesses, going back and correcting my mistakes and enjoying my victories. It has become the ...

Last night I found myself getting frustrated because I feel like I can't maintain the type of consistency in my life that allows for things to be balanced; I start something, stay on task with it for awhile (then life shifts) and it gets tossed to the waist-side.  I have this ideal-world created in my mind that everyday is going to start of great and balanced ... yeah right! In a fantasy world maybe, in my world, it's not happening.  Much of my frustration was coming from the fact that I feel like I have all these things that I want to do (and can never get to them); start back on my exercise regiment, complete small projects around the house, heck! go to the grocery store, set aside some "me" time, catch up on the 50 episodes of General Hospital that I have saved in my DVR and spend time with the Lord.  Out of all of these things; it's my time with the Lord that I want the most. I get on a daily devotion and prayer regiment and then I get off.  Then I find mys...