It’s been a while since I’ve posted and while I’ve been meaning to get back to it there’s always been an excuse as to why I haven’t journaled. Whether it be too many commitments, challenges from work or with my family, they are all just excuses and distractions from what is most important. Journaling has always helped me process and as I sat on the sofa in my office spending time in God’s Word I had an epiphany that made me really think about the choice I was subconsiously actively making to not journal; that to not journal was to not truly commit to spending a full time with God.
Now that may see extreme to some however not fully spending time with God and not journaling means that to me I wasn’t truly committing to building and maintaining a relationship with God. I’ve said many times to my girls that your relationship with God is no different than a relationship with any other friend, it’s time, it’s work and it’s openness. This really came home to me when I read Phillipeans 4:6-7:
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (NLT)
The NLT version said this verse that I’ve heard so many times to a different level, it made it a math problem:
Pray about EVERYTHING (good and bad) = Peace of God that transcends understanding
Why haven’t I ever made that connection? I’ve always experienced God’s peace when other’s think I should be stressed or worried but I’ve not connected it to my prayer life. That brings me to my journaling, I need to return to journaling because as I write, I pray and God continues to speak to me as the words flow and who wouldn’t want more from their Lord when you are looking to know him more.
Thank you God for understanding what I need and how best to communicate with me and forgive me for not always investing as much as I should in our relationship.
An Ordinary Methodist 