Day 54

I have returned after taking two days off. I tried doing my ten things Christmas eve but after I finished three of them I knew I would be up until midnight with everything I needed to get done if I continued to finish them all.  I knew I did not have it in me. Christmas day I went to Church and spent the whole day with my family :) It was a little hard to get back into it today but I can't give up after coming this far.

I am continuing to practice the piano and Spanish. I am still continuing to read my book by David Jeremiah , It is interesting but grieving to read at the same time. It is hard when you know things are going on around you and you can feel it with everything in you and you see how much precious time is being wasted on trivial things You can't do anything about it except pray for the situations and ask God to show you what you need to do. I have started reading another book . It is a book off my reading list that goes along with the course I started working on again. I brushed up on that today also.

I worked on algebra again today. I am struggling with simplifying distributive properties for some reason.I also organized my other bathroom cupboards and I put scripture verses all around my mirror. I thought it might be helpful in the morning. Mornings seem to be the hardest for me and I don't think my brain works well until after 10:00. It takes me a while to process anything before then. I also downloaded the master cook program to my computer this evening and used it to select healthy meals and create shopping lists. My Mom gave it to me about a month ago. I don't know why I did not use it sooner. It is easier than writing out all my lists.

 Sometimes it is easy to keep doing things our way and to forget about the tools we have on hand. How many times have we done that throughout our lives with prayer and reading scripture? God always has the answer for us but when something comes up it seems so easy to instantly try to solve the dilemma on our own and then seek God when all else seems to fail instead of automatically seeking him first. As our relationship with him continues to grow it gets easier to look for him quickly as we have often found in the past our own solutions didn't work to well .

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.  JOHN 16:33