I "heart" Sundays

Happy Sunday! (It's my favorite day of the week!)

I was awaken by the sweetest of baby dachshund kisses and wimpers at 6:30 this morning, my alarm was set for 8:30. I wasn't going to let getting up a couple hours ahead of schedule ruin my day, so I did some pinning (Pinterest), some Flylady site surfing, and watched a couple of YouTube makeup reviews. I did my normal morning stuff (shower, dress, makeup, but forgot meds and vitamins again!) and then woke my husband up for church. I really wanted Panera for breakfast... we've been trying to cut back/save money and it really wasn't in our budget, but I'm spoiled. Off to Panera we went. We both got a souffle and a frozen drink, decided we'd split a bagel with (reduced fat) cream cheese too. It came up to like $20-ish! I happened to have a $5 gift card (thanks to our Walgreens rewards points), that brought us down to $15 something. And then we swiped that handy Panera rewards card and voila! Another free espresso or drink, bringing us down to a grand total of $10 something!!! What a blessing!

Today's worship (we went to the contemporary service) was full of songs we weren't familiar with, but the sermon spoke volumes. The title of the new sermon series is "Biblical Stewardship: A Study in Personal Responsibility." This week's installment aptly titled "A Responsible Steward," scripture basis 1 Corinthians 4:1-5. What I got out of today's sermon was that God can't bless what you're not willing to give and God deserves your first fruits. Tithing would seem like it would be a big part of what was preached and yes it was mentioned a time or two, but what I heard was God deserves all of my firsts! Including the first part of my day. I've been spending time in God's word daily, but I've been waiting until the end of the day just before bed time. This is prompting me to try to do my devotional time first thing in the morning, I'll give a whirl in the morning. Where tithing is concerned... we've always been tithers of the church we are members of and give monthly to a Christian radio ministry, but we've become lax in this habit. We haven't been active members of a body of believers in nearly 2 years. We've only recently adopted Lenexa Baptist as our church or choice, but haven't become formal members (something we're still praying about). Tithing is something we need to continue to pray about, right now our hearts aren't being convicted in that area. Anyhow, I feel like today was all about remember to put God first and into everything I do.


Thoughts on today:

PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE
The ultimate goal of the universe is to show glory to God. And that should be my personal purpose as well. Choosing God rather than all of the fleshy and worldly things. Sometimes it's easy and sometimes it's difficult, but regardless I need to make sure I'm choosing Him every time. I'm starting to make those choices more often, Lord knows the past couple of years have been a struggle. I'm feeling better about my relationship with God every day, knowing that I'm choosing Him because I want Him in my life... that's progress!

BIBLE IN A YEAR
No passages today

FLYLADY
Today was supposed to be a day of relaxation, but I got bit by the cleaning bug after dinner. I went to town in the kitchen! I cleaned the microwave, all of the counters, range hood, top of the stove, entire back-splash, canisters, coffee pot, ran the dishwasher, and shined the sink! It didn't feel like a chore at all, I wanted to do it! I'm looking forward to getting more finished in there tomorrow, I'm shifting some things around as far as cabinets go and purging more junk!

COUCH-TO-5K
Well, I didn't make it to the gym... I had every intention to, but eating a late dinner at 7:30 (normal gym time) messed that up. Tomorrow is another day and I will be there!!!

KIDS DEVOTION: Matthew 28:1-9