Day 44

I have just finished my ten things for the day. Tomorrow I will try to have them done early. I think I plan that every day. I still have fifty six more days to try. It was a little hard to get motivated when I got home this evening. I felt like I was ready for bed after lunch.

The last couple of weeks have been a little busier so I have had to try to be a little creative with my time. I have actually learned to manage my time  better through this whole thing. I  practiced my Spanish and piano like I have been. I worked on algebra and have been reading my books. I decided not to go to the garage tonight and look for more wood for my bird house. Walking down the stairs to wander around in the cold garage did not appeal to me this evening. I gave myself a facial and I am doing a little experiment to see if there is any difference in using oatmeal avocado mask on one half of my face and a pineapple enzyme on the other. I will see if there is any change at the end of my 100 day experiment.

The fire truck with Santa clause came through our neighborhood tonight. I have not missed it once since we have lived here. I don't know why I run outside every year to see it . I get all excited when I hear the music playing and I run for the door like a little kid. I think it comes from the same part of the brain that still see's good places to build forts. This year they came all the way down to our house.

The best part about the evening was a little ceremony we had as a family. We all wrote down things privately that we were carrying  or things that kept creeping up from our past to haunt us.( things like burdens we have carried, regrets, bitterness, fears, unforgiveness, past hurts, etc.) We put them all in a box and sealed it up and then we prayed together and buried the box. We placed a cross on it that said ' It is finished" .

There are things we don't think about sometimes that are deep inside and we don't realize it is there until you hear a persons name or you run into someone when you are out and about and then out of the blue all these feelings you didn't know you still had rush to the surface and catch you off guard and you feel hurt or upset all over again and just when you think there is not any unforgiveness left in you and you have surrendered it all to God , it seems like something new will happen to challenge you. One of the great  things about having a relationship with the Lord is that he helps keep us on track and he reminds us of the grace and mercy he has shown us so that we may extend that same grace and mercy to others.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.   2 Peter 1:3