Women of Faith:
Are you like me in the morning, hitting the snooze button 3, or 4, or more times. Sometimes even pushing the alarm clocks “snooze” limit?
Are we pushing the “snooze” button on God? God says we can’t push Him to a limit, but have we “hit snooze” so often that we are oversleeping and missing the rewards
He offers us each day, His ability to care for us in every aspect of our “daily” lives.
Monday: Set the tone for yourself and God: Am I sleeping and exercising regularly and then choosing the right foods to eat? Or is “snooze” the name of the diet and exercise plan, saying I will “snooze” til tomorrow, the weekend or maybe even a New Year’s resolution?”
Tuesday—Our Country: Don’t snooze, VOTE tomorrow!! God’s choice is LIFE, not protection of our economy but of the people He created. “No servant can serve two masters. 8 He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16: 13
Wednesday—Spirit Day (Religious Ed/church night): If you are taking the kids to get educated, are you educating yourself in God’ ways by what you are reading and watching? Are you in “snooze” mode with escape books, reality TV or rap music, or are you reading a self help book (Matthew Kelley), watching EWTN (Catholic TV) or listening to Christian radio (99.1 or 101.9).
Thursday—Societies “model.” Are we “snoozing and losing” focus of God because of the society and peer pressures around us. Don’t give in to “saying and doing” what society says is right. We know in our heart what God is asking us to wake up to and to speak for and against. If we are awake to God, His joy in our lives will be contagious to those around us.
Friday—the day of the cross: Are you hitting the snooze button on asking for “forgiveness?” Someplace there is someone we need to tell, “I’m sorry.” When was the last time YOU held YOURSELF accountable and received the sacrament of reconciliation? God’s forgiveness and mercy is for all, regardless of the seriousness of our sin, and if we ASK. As yesterday’s reading from Wis 11:22-12:2 reminds us: “But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook people's sins that they may repent. For you love all things that are and loathe nothing that you have made; for what you hated, you would not have fashioned. And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? But you spare all things, because they are yours, O LORD and lover of souls, for your imperishable spirit is in all things! Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little, warn them and remind them of the sins they are committing, that they may abandon their wickedness and believe in you, O LORD!”
Saturday: Date night! How important have I made my spouse this week? God tells us that the purpose of marriage is to take our spouse to heaven. They can’t come with us if we don’t ask them to come and if we don’t make them our priority—not just on
Saturday, but all week long, in every decision, in every step we take with God. Quit putting them on “snooze” just because they are the most “tolerant” and understanding person in your life. Make your spouse your priority. (If you are not married: a parent, a “spiritually lonely” child, the elderly or someone without a family: someone is seeking your friendship so that you can share God in their life.)
Sunday—God’s chosen day. Are we taking ourselves (and our children) to church, or sleeping through another “snooze” on the alarm clock, saying “this is MY day to sleep in?” God doesn’t “sleep in!” He is awake all the time, seeing our every “snooze,” and listening attentively to our every prayer. Be awakened by Church, listen to His word and be fed his body and blood so that we can remain spiritually healthy when we go home and want to “snooze” in the other parts of our life.
All Loving, All Merciful God, Wake me up. Help me to turn off the snooze button in my life and say “Good Morning, God, I am awake for you today. Amen.
God's Alarm! Snooze! God's Buzzing! SNOOZE! GOD's CALLING! Wake up, if you have not already done so, because it’s “your” time, in your life, to do something for God.
Blessings,
Charlotte
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Faithfully Fit
Dedicated today to a special group of women who start a “Faithfully Fit” exercise group—a group of faith filled women, working together to make their bodies honor God by being healthy thru exercise. Their title made me think about what I’m doing to make myself spiritually “faithfully fit?” What am I doing to exercise my Christianity in my daily life?
During Christmas we put aside our differences, angers and frustrations and made special efforts to show our families and friends how much they mean to us. It was similar to a honeymoon, where everything is new and fresh, where little “issues” are set aside and special efforts are made to please those around us, where it was “easy” to live God’s love because he was the reason for the season.
After the holidays we feel a “let down” in our spirit. We no longer have the anticipation of a holiday filled with God’s love, a time when we are reminded of “love” through a daily anticipation of family gatherings and joyous music at every turn. It is a more “ordinary” time, a time when we have to work to be faith filled instead of just faithful.
So, how can I keep the spirit of God’s “Christmas love” alive in my life during this “ordinary time?” How can I become more “faithfully fit?”
The book, “A Woman After God’s Own Heart” by Elisabeth George offers some suggestions for being “Faithfully Fit.”
1) “Choose God at every opportunity. Choosing God deepens our devotion.” Commit yourself to actively making decisions the way God would want us to make a decision, not a decision which meets our purpose, but one that meets God’s purpose. Pray for His guidance and for His blessings to choose the path Jesus would have. WWJD! “I may approach God with freedom and confidence.” (Eph.3:12)
2) “Commit yourself to God daily.” Pray every day. Make God a part of every moment. Say it out loud, “Lord, today I am yours. Make me an instrument of your peace.”
3) “Cultivate a “hot heart.” Don’t be “lukewarm,” half-hearted. Don’t pick and choose the Truths you want to follow because they fit your lifestyle. If we are going to be “faithfully fit” we must be whole-heartedly faithful, we must seek God’s entire truth, not just the ones that fit. “I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected.” (Phil.1:5)
Let’s make this ordinary time-extraordinary. Let’s recommit ourselves to being “faithfully fit.”
“Dear God, Let your presence in my life make a difference to those lives around me. Help me to be faith full. Let me speak of the great things you have done for us. Help me to choose you at every opportunity and to commit myself to you daily. Help me to seek your entire truth and to make the difficult choices that follow you on the path of trust and faith. Amen.”
Blessings as you Exercise to Become Faithfully Fit, in Mind and Body! Charlotte
During Christmas we put aside our differences, angers and frustrations and made special efforts to show our families and friends how much they mean to us. It was similar to a honeymoon, where everything is new and fresh, where little “issues” are set aside and special efforts are made to please those around us, where it was “easy” to live God’s love because he was the reason for the season.
After the holidays we feel a “let down” in our spirit. We no longer have the anticipation of a holiday filled with God’s love, a time when we are reminded of “love” through a daily anticipation of family gatherings and joyous music at every turn. It is a more “ordinary” time, a time when we have to work to be faith filled instead of just faithful.
So, how can I keep the spirit of God’s “Christmas love” alive in my life during this “ordinary time?” How can I become more “faithfully fit?”
The book, “A Woman After God’s Own Heart” by Elisabeth George offers some suggestions for being “Faithfully Fit.”
1) “Choose God at every opportunity. Choosing God deepens our devotion.” Commit yourself to actively making decisions the way God would want us to make a decision, not a decision which meets our purpose, but one that meets God’s purpose. Pray for His guidance and for His blessings to choose the path Jesus would have. WWJD! “I may approach God with freedom and confidence.” (Eph.3:12)
2) “Commit yourself to God daily.” Pray every day. Make God a part of every moment. Say it out loud, “Lord, today I am yours. Make me an instrument of your peace.”
3) “Cultivate a “hot heart.” Don’t be “lukewarm,” half-hearted. Don’t pick and choose the Truths you want to follow because they fit your lifestyle. If we are going to be “faithfully fit” we must be whole-heartedly faithful, we must seek God’s entire truth, not just the ones that fit. “I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected.” (Phil.1:5)
Let’s make this ordinary time-extraordinary. Let’s recommit ourselves to being “faithfully fit.”
“Dear God, Let your presence in my life make a difference to those lives around me. Help me to be faith full. Let me speak of the great things you have done for us. Help me to choose you at every opportunity and to commit myself to you daily. Help me to seek your entire truth and to make the difficult choices that follow you on the path of trust and faith. Amen.”
Blessings as you Exercise to Become Faithfully Fit, in Mind and Body! Charlotte
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