I should be cleaning or doing school. But it is Monday and the to-do list has been diligently adhered to all morning. I am caught up with laundry,have clean windows, and the downstairs is dust free. Supper only needs to be warmed. Next is floors... my number one most hated chore lately... the constant dirt and grime on my floors. I needed a break. I know I wrote this morning, but I feel rest and peaceful solitude when I write, so I again take to the keys, allowing my fingers to express my thoughts.

The christmas decor is finally down and 2010 is in full swing. It has begun well for me and I anticipate the coming year. I am reading through the bible this year. I decided to do it for the first time ever. I know the Bible, backwards, forwards and inside out. Reading through in one year has never interested me. This year I want to look at and remember the works of the hand of God.

At the moment God is laying the generational importance of humanity on my heart. So often we look at our life and out circumstance and pray accordingly. If we hear about a situation; prayer or praise, we may lift that up as well. We study the bible for our enrichment and we share with others for theirs. Books are read, truth is explored, analogies are deciphered and we grow wise in the knowledge of current religious intellectualism. Frankly, that concept has become like candy overload to me. I am going back to basics. To the God who promises and 400 years later it is revealed in all it's fullness. I am relinquishing MY will and asking for Thine. I am reading for my grand-babies, praying for my daughter and son in-laws. I am speaking the promises of God over the generations that are to come. I have turned my prayers from my immediate to the eternal. What does it all mean? I don't know.... but I know that it is bigger than me.

To know that the God I say I worship has been, is and will be is my truth for today. It keeps my breaths coming deep and my heart beating life.

Oh that I will have eyes to see, ears to hear, a mouth to speak and a heart that knows the abundant promises of the Lord for now and to forever.

Amen