2 Corinthians 8:10-12 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it, so there also may be a completion out of what you have. 12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.
What did I begin a year ago that I am desiring to do? What do I need to complete that I have started? Well, I have a list....
- Decluttering
- Put together another book & publish it
- Scrapbooking
- Daily exercise
- Home-schooling
- Finish reading the pile of books I have started:
- Standing Room Only
- The Ploughman Talks
- Respectable Sins
- Nourishing Traditions
- Depression: A Stubborn Darkness
- All my home-school magazines
- 1776
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- Emilie Barnes books on homemaking/organization (2 of them)
I am sure I have forgotten some of the books I have started and not finished!
Well, this is quite a list. If I try to do it all it will be a prescription for defeat. So I will take one thing at a time and just plug away at it. My sign on my fridge says, "It doesn't matter how slow you go, just so long as you don't quit." I need to keep this in mind.
I do love how God uses various passages of Scripture to speak to me where I am at. The Bible is so fresh and applicable to my life all the time! I can't get enough of it!
2 comments:
You are amazingly motivated. Good luck to you!
Nope, I am amazingly fragmented and distracted! That is why my list of unfinished stuff is so long and I go to bed every night with a list of unfinished things.
I have to be very careful that I don't stress myself out with all of this stuff (and I have and do stress out over it) I have to remember, as my physical therapist has reminded me often, that I must pace myself. I can't do it all all the time. I have to pull back and take it small chunks at a time. I have to remind myself that it doesn't matter how slow I go, just so long as I don't quit. And I have to remember to lean on God's strength to help me do what I need to do. Only through His strength can I do it. I remind myself often, "His strength for my weakness."
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