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Love is Caring


I am terrible about keeping up with things.  I have great ideas, and self-motivation to get them started, but I have terrible follow through.  I would like to have a clean house all the time, and I know what it takes to do it, I just don’t always have the follow through needed.  I know that I shouldn’t loose my temper with my children, but on some days, I just do…  My kids are the same way.  They will be very excited about an idea, but then lack the follow through.  My oldest daughter is in a 4-year-old kindergarten.  In this class, they get a prize every time they fill up a chart for being well behaved.  So what did I decide to do?  Why I made charts for home.  Only instead of doing just basic good behavior, I pin-pointed the types of behaviors that I wanted my children to do:  make the bed, clean the toy room, put their clothes away, wake up and get dressed without complaining…  When they fill up one column they will get a prize and when the whole sheet is filled up, they will get to choose what we do to celebrate, like going to the skating rink or bowling…   

After I finished the kid’s one, I made myself one with goals that I wanted to achieve: working out, making my bed, laundry every day, no yelling at the kids, less than 1 hour on facebook and pinterest, and the list goes on.  I find the most important one on my list is doing my devotions daily.  There are things that are important in life, and things that aren’t important in life.  Reading today, I found this:

Romans 5:11 “So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.”

So often, I forget that I have a relationship with God.  I feel like I have to do things or act a certain way because I am a Christian, not because I want to or I love God.  There is a cute little e-card going around.  IT made me think about our relationship with God.  I am sure that I make Him angry, and He has made me angry too, but Love is caring about someone even when they make you angry.  Working through that anger and developing a relationship that wont go anywhere.  It applies to your marriage and to our relationships with God.  Thank God He still loves me even when I am not what He wants me to be! 

Hoepfully this list that I have made will encourage me to be a more Godly woman, more into my relationship with Him.  I have a verse at the bottom of the page also.  Do everything as unto the Lord…  :D 

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