One Step At A Time...

Bad attitudes. Do I have one when ask to help serve my family, my church, my community? Do I grumble and complain because I think my God given talents and gifts are better used elsewhere? Do I get an attitude with those that I am working with because things are not my way? Do you? I have been studying the book of Nehemiah with my mom's ladies group at her church and this verse keeps coming back to me from Nehemiah 3 where Nehemiah talks about the beginnings of rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He is talking about how each person did their job, fixing what was in fixing of them, how they all worked together, despite of job, job title, and class. All except the nobles of Tekoa.  "5 The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa, but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors." Even in the days of the Old Testament, there was always someone who thought they were too good to do hard work. They had bad attitudes about what the...

I have been struggling internally over issues beyond my control. Allowing others' drama bring me down. I have moments when I just want to scream at those people to let it go (cue Frozen soundtrack in your head), or stop creating drama in your life, or that is time to move from issues in their past, to fully give those issues to God like they said they have and stop picking them up after they say a prayer for Him to help them, plus so many other thoughts. Unfortunately, I am not eloquent with speaking words aloud and end up being blunt and to the point, which can cause hurt to that person. Instead, I keep all of this thoughts in my head and simply pray Psalms 141:3 and Luke 22:49 over and over. I know these issues are beyond anything that I can do. The best thing for me to do is to pray for them. Simply put. I cannot change anything, any person, but myself. I can only even do that with the help of Jesus.

I am a slacker. I have been knitting like crazy and blogging took a back seat again. It is not hard to tell where my priorities and true passions are! To be honest, I have never confessed to be a blogger so I am good in my slacking. Life is still crazy but the hard parts seem to have calmed down. My father in law has entered remission from cancer, my Nan suffered a heart attack but is recovering, Jeriah's pain has seemed to calm down. We are getting ready for Christmas slowly. Lots of shopping left to do.  My oldest is playing hockey, middle is playing basketball, the youngest is seeing how much he can age me in a small amount of time! Overall, we are doing good and keeping busy!

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Too much stuff weighs your whole being down. Letting go of it all, is so freeing and life changing. We have been programed to think that more things will make us happier but that is a pure lie. Excess stuff holds you back. It creates fears of not being good enough. Too many things creates chaos and disorder in your house and mind. Through this process, I have learned that without all the stuff that I can breathe easier,  that I am more at peace in my mind and soul, I am not dreading someone showing up unexpectedly because my house is a giant mess because I have no place for all of these things that I have accumulated. Owning less is way easier than trying to clean up excess stuff all the time. This is the simple lesson that I learned through all of this.   Simple but true! Major differences that have happened:  - My floors are staying cleaner longer. There was too much stuff that had no home, so it ended up on the floor. - My laundry is staying caught up. I can d...

I don't know if any of you follow or have heard of Dave Ramsey . He is a money guru who has an awesome book called the Total Money Makeover (which I totally recommend to everyone!). In his book, he talks about the snowball effect which is about how a small change can motivate you to keep making bigger changes, like how a snowball gets larger as it rolls down a hill. He applies this example to getting out of debt but I am using it to talk about my journey to reclaiming my house from stuff. Yesterday, I talked about how just deeply purging clothes made my house feel lighter and helped to settle the constant chaos that we felt. The day after I started the clothing, I decided to tackle another job that I had been putting off: my yarn stash/cabinet. The doors would not even shut on it anymore because it was so messy. It was a big task but I had this mindset that it was going to be done. Before and After I moved on from there and tackled the entertainment cabinet and tided and ...

Back to my story: I looked at this item of clothing that my daughter has never even wore before but I had washed multiple times and said this is the last time that I am washing it. I am done. I refuse to spend time and energy to keep all of this stuff clean. It is time to remove it from my home. It and many other items were washed, dried and placed into a empty green basket. Within two loads of laundry, that empty basket was full and overflowing. I just kept washing, drying, folding and purging and it took about a week to get through it all. That basket is currently full again and will have a permanent place near my laundry area. My trusty green donation basket! The rule was that if it did not fit in my kids' dressers, it was going. For my husband and I, the rule was we had to love the item or it was gone. We just simply did not have room for this many pieces of clothing in this house. We were done with living out of laundry baskets. I took three smaller baskets and labelled ...