Too busy to love?

If you've been reading my blog for long you know that the last year I have been on an intense spiritual journey. The Lord has taught me so much and it is overwhelming and intoxicating (in the excited sense!)

The Lord has really brought to my attention what my priorities are in life: Loving God in the way He created me to and loving my family in the way He created me to. I am one that will put others first and fill my iTouch calendar with four or five of those little dots (events) each day. I'm the type who will lose sleep thinking about EVERYTHING I HAVE TO GET DONE. Yeah...well...the Lord has brought to my attention over the last six months that the only thing I HAVE TO GET DONE is to love God, Mark, and Anderson in the way he created me too. You know what? Someday we will be judged and we will meet God, someday my kids will be gone and Mark and I will be on my own, and someday Anderson won't be a toddler and needing me every other minute. If I don't love now... oh the wounds I will create and regrets I will build! I don't want to be sitting in the passenger seat of my car as I've dropped my last kid off at college saying, "now what?" Why did I DO rather than simply NOT DO and love?

I have really been convicted about this to the point where I have either not taken on new commitments or been diligent in my time management so that I am able to take time to love God, Mark, and Anderson in the way God created to love. I'm a normal mom in our crazy society and I can tell you it's been hard but oh so worth it. I've already seen a change in the atmosphere of my home and spiritual life.

I encourage you to really think about this. Married, Single, Divorced, Kids, No kids, are you loving God and those around you in the way that God created you too?