I posed a question to a couple of my friends but got to thinking; I would really love, love, love to hear how some of you do it as well.
What is IT you ask?
1. How does your family decide what will be read and studied for family devotions?
2. How do you decide what you yourself will read and study during your own individual quiet time?
3. Do you require your children to have their own personal quiet time with the Lord?
4. What does quiet time look like for you, what "tools" do you need?
5. What does family devotions look like for your family? Do family members take turns reading passages? Are you memorizing scriptures together?
Ok I think that's enough questions (for now). Chime in, share, I'm sure I'm not the only one curious!
- iTasha
1/29/2010
1/18/2010
Struggles
Sometimes I feel like there is so much on my plate. I seriously would like to give some of it back. In a two month time period, my entire world has been rocked and there seems to be no letting up.
I feel like my WALK is challenged on every end, at every moment. I daily feel the weight of this world and life on my shoulders. I'm constantly reminded that I cannot carry this load on my own.
To many, I may sound like I'm giving up, taking the easy way, the broad path. I assure you, I am not. Some may say I am leaving my children out to take on the wolves themselves. Again, I am not.
What I am doing, however, is taking a step back and regrouping and retraining my own focus on the Lord. How can I be an example if my walk is shaky?
I'm also putting something back in my husbands lap...the spiritual welfare of our family. This load was NEVER meant for the woman to carry. The burden was to solely be the mans, with the woman coming along side him. I feel that as long as I carry the load, my husband will continue to allow me to do just that.
I can still assign certain books to be read and scriptures to meditate on for school and the children's daily quiet time, but family devotions will be up to my husband.
I know it may sound foolish to some, but none walk in my shoes. If I continue to be a crutch to him, he will continue to use me to hobble on. I don't want that for him, me, or our children. We've all got to see him gain his strength and his own momentum in his spiritual life.
Please join with me in prayer and fasting if you feel led, that God will move in his heart, that he would have a hunger and thirst for the things of God. That he would become so dissatisfied with anything less. That God would speak to him about the spiritual state of his life as well as our family.
Please also lift me up, as this is VERY scary for me. I've been the head of my home for 4 years and to begin to let things go is not easy.
I feel like my WALK is challenged on every end, at every moment. I daily feel the weight of this world and life on my shoulders. I'm constantly reminded that I cannot carry this load on my own.
To many, I may sound like I'm giving up, taking the easy way, the broad path. I assure you, I am not. Some may say I am leaving my children out to take on the wolves themselves. Again, I am not.
What I am doing, however, is taking a step back and regrouping and retraining my own focus on the Lord. How can I be an example if my walk is shaky?
I'm also putting something back in my husbands lap...the spiritual welfare of our family. This load was NEVER meant for the woman to carry. The burden was to solely be the mans, with the woman coming along side him. I feel that as long as I carry the load, my husband will continue to allow me to do just that.
I can still assign certain books to be read and scriptures to meditate on for school and the children's daily quiet time, but family devotions will be up to my husband.
I know it may sound foolish to some, but none walk in my shoes. If I continue to be a crutch to him, he will continue to use me to hobble on. I don't want that for him, me, or our children. We've all got to see him gain his strength and his own momentum in his spiritual life.
Please join with me in prayer and fasting if you feel led, that God will move in his heart, that he would have a hunger and thirst for the things of God. That he would become so dissatisfied with anything less. That God would speak to him about the spiritual state of his life as well as our family.
Please also lift me up, as this is VERY scary for me. I've been the head of my home for 4 years and to begin to let things go is not easy.
1/05/2010
Thank You!!!
I just wanted to take this time and say thank you to those that read my blog and take the time to comment. Your kind words and especially your prayers are appreciated greatly!!!
This New Year holds many new things for me. I'm working on the restoration of my marriage/family, working out my faith, and improving my sewing skills.
My heart is heavy but my hopes are high. I know He is with me! His plans for me are greater than I can imagine.
- iTasha
This New Year holds many new things for me. I'm working on the restoration of my marriage/family, working out my faith, and improving my sewing skills.
My heart is heavy but my hopes are high. I know He is with me! His plans for me are greater than I can imagine.
- iTasha
12/31/2009
New Years Eve - Afternoon
Well, I most likely won't post tonight, unless......
It's always good to leave that option open. I had a goal for 2009 and that was to increase my blogging and I did.
My goal for 2010 is to improve my sewing/quilting skills and start a sewing/quilting blog. I'm hoping my daughters will get into the groove of this and join me. That would be loads of fun.
I've narrowed down my hobbies to reading, sewing, and quilting. I think that's enough for this gal. I don't know that my plate will handle much more, although I do like my gardening, so I may not be able to do away with that one. ;-)
I don't make resolutions...I never stick to them. I think my biggest thing for 2010 is to continue the grieving process for my mother and deepen my walk with Christ, not in that particular order but you know...
One other thing I'll be working on this year is being the best me God created me to be. I've always been a people pleaser and it's gotten really old now. I just want to be me. I've noticed that I've gotten a little legalistic and I want to shed that and just please my Savior, after all, HE is the most important one in this universe anyway.
UPDATE: My sister is a married woman now. She sent me pictures and we both cried. Boy how we sure miss our mom!!!!
It's always good to leave that option open. I had a goal for 2009 and that was to increase my blogging and I did.
My goal for 2010 is to improve my sewing/quilting skills and start a sewing/quilting blog. I'm hoping my daughters will get into the groove of this and join me. That would be loads of fun.
I've narrowed down my hobbies to reading, sewing, and quilting. I think that's enough for this gal. I don't know that my plate will handle much more, although I do like my gardening, so I may not be able to do away with that one. ;-)
I don't make resolutions...I never stick to them. I think my biggest thing for 2010 is to continue the grieving process for my mother and deepen my walk with Christ, not in that particular order but you know...
One other thing I'll be working on this year is being the best me God created me to be. I've always been a people pleaser and it's gotten really old now. I just want to be me. I've noticed that I've gotten a little legalistic and I want to shed that and just please my Savior, after all, HE is the most important one in this universe anyway.
UPDATE: My sister is a married woman now. She sent me pictures and we both cried. Boy how we sure miss our mom!!!!
New Years Eve - Morning
Today my baby sister will be getting married. Kinda reminds me of when I got married almost 17 years ago. Mom was not able to be there physically for me when I married and neither will she be there for my sister when she says I do either.
Moments like today and Christmas, and I'm positive others to come, will make us reflect back on who our mother really was. She was a giant....one whose shoes none of us will ever be able to fill. She never saw herself as strong or worthy, but if she only knew...we all looked to her for strength just so we could hold on and move forward.
They say this will get easier. She was our best friend, I don't know if that's possible for it to get easier. When my brother and then father passed away, it was sad and it hurt and yes over the years it did get easier. Those two were my best friends as well, but none of them like my mother. I think it's different when it's a mother. Those heart strings begin to be knitted and tied together long before birth. So when you lose a mother, it feels like you have just fallen into an abyss.
Tomorrow will mark the beginning of a new year. A new year without either of my parents. A new year I must learn to grow up even more. A new year that I must try to hold on to so many memories and yet pass on so many things to my children from their grandparents. A new year to lean on God a little bit more, trust Him even more, and call on Him a lot more.
No grand celebration for our family. We are thankful and blessed for a new year, but this is also the year of so many unwanted changes.
We love you mom, we wouldn't want you back on this side of heaven simply because we can only imagine the joy, peace, and love you must feel now. One day, we too will be on that side of heaven with you and we'll fully understand your joy.
God Bless...
Moments like today and Christmas, and I'm positive others to come, will make us reflect back on who our mother really was. She was a giant....one whose shoes none of us will ever be able to fill. She never saw herself as strong or worthy, but if she only knew...we all looked to her for strength just so we could hold on and move forward.
They say this will get easier. She was our best friend, I don't know if that's possible for it to get easier. When my brother and then father passed away, it was sad and it hurt and yes over the years it did get easier. Those two were my best friends as well, but none of them like my mother. I think it's different when it's a mother. Those heart strings begin to be knitted and tied together long before birth. So when you lose a mother, it feels like you have just fallen into an abyss.
Tomorrow will mark the beginning of a new year. A new year without either of my parents. A new year I must learn to grow up even more. A new year that I must try to hold on to so many memories and yet pass on so many things to my children from their grandparents. A new year to lean on God a little bit more, trust Him even more, and call on Him a lot more.
No grand celebration for our family. We are thankful and blessed for a new year, but this is also the year of so many unwanted changes.
We love you mom, we wouldn't want you back on this side of heaven simply because we can only imagine the joy, peace, and love you must feel now. One day, we too will be on that side of heaven with you and we'll fully understand your joy.
God Bless...
12/24/2009
Christmas Eve 2009
This is supposed to be a happy and joyous time of year, this is after all a celebration of Jesus.
Yet I just can't seem to get in the mood.
My heart is heavy as I look around and notice that my mom is missing and see the small changes my sisters fiancé are making in my mothers house and I want to scream. I am actually screaming inside, I want it all to stop and everything to go back to normal. It all seems to be going so fast.
Someone stop the ride I really want to get off of this one.
- iTasha
Yet I just can't seem to get in the mood.
My heart is heavy as I look around and notice that my mom is missing and see the small changes my sisters fiancé are making in my mothers house and I want to scream. I am actually screaming inside, I want it all to stop and everything to go back to normal. It all seems to be going so fast.
Someone stop the ride I really want to get off of this one.
- iTasha
12/18/2009
A new hurdle
Today we laid my mothers earthen vessle to rest. There were many tears and yet double the laughter.
Mom will be missed even more than she knew but I ever so grateful for the life lessons as well as all the memories.
Mom taught me to cherish the simple stuff, like finding beauty in rocks and collecting them, gazing at the sunset, or going thrift store shopping. She taught me everything I or my children know about crafts and the creative arts. She was full of praise and a smile even when she was going thru lifes challenges.
As we sat thru her homegoing I saw how many lives she touched and for each of those in attendance, there were about 7-10 unable to attend....she literally had children all around the world.
She was FAR above rubies and loved by many. She was my best friend.
- iTasha
Mom will be missed even more than she knew but I ever so grateful for the life lessons as well as all the memories.
Mom taught me to cherish the simple stuff, like finding beauty in rocks and collecting them, gazing at the sunset, or going thrift store shopping. She taught me everything I or my children know about crafts and the creative arts. She was full of praise and a smile even when she was going thru lifes challenges.
As we sat thru her homegoing I saw how many lives she touched and for each of those in attendance, there were about 7-10 unable to attend....she literally had children all around the world.
She was FAR above rubies and loved by many. She was my best friend.
- iTasha
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