“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman that fears the Lord is to be praised” Proverbs 31:30

I am such a pitiful work in progress. So, when you read previously that I was doing a 30 day, “Path to Community” post, I am sure you were expecting it to be a consecutive 30 day post series, right? Well, me too, but between procrastination, cleaning vomit, migraines, and downright pushing my luck against God; I haven’t gotten it done.

Do you remember the last post? Day 1, was about listing my time priorities and God letting me know that I needed to be getting up early, say around 5ish. I totally balked. PLEASE, pray for me. Balking has not in anyway made things easier. So, here I am many days later working on Day 2.

Day 2, is pretty simple really. He said get up earlier (He = God), so that you and me can have some time together in peace and quiet. Time spent in learning, building, reading, praying, and giving my time to the Lord.

~I am putting my list up again to remind me for this season of my life what is important. Once again it may change as God works on my heart and mind.

My List

God Time
Husband Time
Family Time
Caring for House Time (cleaning, caretaking, cutting wood, etc.)
Caring for Family Time (cooking, bathing, teaching, etc.)
Community Time (outside of the home, with family & friends & strangers)
Reflection Time (To look back on my day and see what can be changed or done better)

Proverbs 16:3 – Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

I stink at time. Spending time, wasting time, finding the time. I am really bad at managing my time wisely. And, once again I have tried to do this all by myself. Then I realized, time management from a biblical perspective is not about the challenge to manage time. The Bible teaches that we need to surrender everything to God including our time. As I stated, I want to “make time”, in my life for community. This is a big priority in my life. A priority that I feel God has laid on my heart. So, for the next thirty days I am going on a journey on how to do just that. When God laid this on my heart, I said God, “I don’t have time”. From the very beginning I said I can’t, I am pretty sure can’t doesn’t exist in God’s vocabulary. Therefore, it shouldn’t exist in mine. So, today I am starting with a list of priorities and making time for them. As the 30 days pass, I will re-evaluate the list and add to it or change it. As He molds me, things change, right?

Time Priorities

God Time
Husband Time
Family Time
Caring for House Time (cleaning, caretaking, cutting wood, etc.)
Caring for Family Time (cooking, bathing, teaching, etc.)
Community Time (outside of the home, with family & friends & strangers)

I am a procrastinator! I admit it. Being a procrastinator wreaks havoc on so many things. Mostly it destroys my sanity. The world does not need an insane mom on the loose. You know that saying, “when mom’s unhappy, everyone’s unhappy”. I do this to myself, no one but me makes me unhappy. So, God said, lets fix this. I said, rather reluctantly, “okay”.

Handing my time over to God – Step One

His answer today for me, was this –

Proverbs Chapter 31:15 – She gets up while it is still dark…

I get it, no really I do. Get up before the kids, check! I love sleep, I mean I LOVE sleep. Talking about time, well for as long as I can remember I have been a sleep in kind of gal. No easy step 1′s, God? We can’t ease into this journey can we? PLEASE! Can’t you just hear God saying or thinking, “For once can you just listen and obey, instead of talking back to me?” That is how I feel with my kids. So, hear goes…

Prayer

Lord, please give me the strength I need to get up every morning and spend time with you before each day begins. I hand my time over to you Lord that you may help me succeed.

Amen.