My main struggle is screen time addiction...I fell into it more and more after Heather left for college. I didn't have anyone at home to interact with, and I believed the ugly trap that just a few minutes on my phone was acceptable. Sadly, a few minutes turned into wasted hours that has affected my sleep and my time with God. My beautiful daughter-in-law stated this so beautifully in a 2017 blog post entitled Rest Project: An Invitation. Friends, I have clearly hit the "daughter-on-law jackpot!" This beautiful young woman, who loves the Lord and my son, challenges me through her intentional life. Here is an excerpt that has convicted me over and over:
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| Shared by permission of Jenna Craker |
Thankfully, the busy, busy period at work lasted just a season during open enrollment for the Federal Marketplace. It is honestly like tax time is for an accountant for our Enrollment Team at Neighborhood Health. Additionally, for a variety of reasons (which I won't go into here), our patients and clients are increasingly confused about their options. As a result we take our roles seriously about educating them so they can make an informed choice, and we also teach them how to use the insurance choice they have made. Google translate has become a helpful tool as I have done this in Chinese, Arabic, and Vietnamese. Neighborhood Health has been growing and developing, and we have exciting times ahead! You can learn more by viewing these links: Neighborhood Health: Who We Are and Neighborhood Health Brand Reveal.
Fortunately, I have re-grouped and in recent weeks gotten back Bible Study Fellowship where I have an accountability partner 💗. I also am joining a new church, Avalon Missionary Church, where I am radically challenged every week. I am back at Planet Fitness 2-3 mornings before work with a friend, and I am working on some very cool craft, photography, and writing projects. |
| Me steppin' out of the dating scene 😂 |
Seriously, I had the most amazing incident that brought me to this conclusion to fast from dating. While I was visiting Stephen and Jenna's church, I just "happened" to pick up a handout from the previous week's young adult Sunday school class...and what I read convicted me in a radical way. To put this in perspective, I have, for the most part, been completely confident and content on my own. Yet, when I allow just a tiny bit of self-pity and ungratefulness nestle into my heart, I get into big trouble and can be led astray in a hot minute...and this was my heart's condition in the moment that I saw this lesson. Bam!
I have had such amazing peace and joy since making this decision, and it has been a good choice for me. It has been a healthy choice that has led to such freedom 😊....and so as Paul writes:
"But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus" Philippians 3:7-12 NIV
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