One time I was in church, and my Pastor was talking about tithing. The tithe is 10% of one's income that the Bible talks about giving to the church. Anyway, he was saying how not everyone does this, but should, et cetera.. and he said something that has always stuck with me- basically he said: 'stop trying to make up for what you haven't done so far, and just start fresh from today..'.. this is loosely quoted, because this was many many years ago. However, the point being that instead of just trying and trying and trying to catch up with what we haven't done up until now, we should just start from right here, and do it right, and be faithful about it- from right HERE!
Now a quick little disclaimer is this: don't use THAT as an excuse to not do what God is asking you to do- if He is convicting you to catch up or make amends or whatever, then do so. Sometimes He wants us to do that, and instill more discipline and learn about consequences, et cetera..a
Moving on- I like to make things right. And sometimes I will spend all my energy trying to re-do everything I've done or haven't done, and make up for all that "FAILures" I've had.. and then I don't have time to do what I need to do NOW.. and then I get more behind, and bleh, what a big mess! I haven't kept up with this Blog the way I would like t0-- I haven't been exercising like I'd like to- haven't been doing this and doing that and reading this and writing that and.. and.. AND................
STRESS!! Why do I need Thee??
Oh.. I don't. I am a human, and I will fail sometimes. It's as simple as that.
From here on out, I am going to work at keeping up with my blog rather than trying to catch up, which I have been trying to do- and haven't been really successful at! :)
Now, I am going to bed! Blessings...
~A
