Sam & Tammy

I’ve been doing a bit of readjusting in my free time activities, basically they’ve been canned. You see I was spending way too much time following the pursuits of my fleshly pride, yup, so the Lord canned them. Sort of by force, with my help of course.

In the place of vain pursuits I’ve been spending more time in the Word and prayer, it’s a great hobby! Oh yes, and I’ve canned system input as well. It was creeping in a little too much, my Coach and I had a word, and ‘voila!’ canned! No, actually it was a little harder than that, but I’ll spare you all the gory details. It’s a great feeling. Not only do I feel empowered, but I feel a bit cleaner too.

This sums it up:

It’s as if they have been reborn to love, to reach out and help others, spreading joy and love wherever they go.

Another thing that’s been incredible for me has been keeping a log of my spiritual life requirements, (funny how it helps you be more faithful when you know you’ll be recording it somewhere), and a running list of my spiritual to do’s. And memorization is the bomb.

It’s so easy for me to get familiar with any aspect of my spiritual life. I’m ashamed to say it, but I put a lot more effort into my ministries and jobs than I did my spiritual life. I had priorities, I had to do lists, I had deadlines. But when it came to my spirit, well, clock in–clock out. I got my time in, now let’s move on and get some real work done. Then recently various events caused me to take a good hard look at this aspect of my life, and you know what I realized? I was treating this time like something I absolutely did not care if I succeeded in or not. But I do care!!! So now I sure as hell am gonna make sure I pass this grade. And I don’t just want to pass, I want to be in the top 1% of my class. “I determined to make my weakest point, my strongest asset.” (George Bernard Shaw–Family Fun 11…I think)