Happy Valentine’s, former procrastinators! You toured your house looking for any item that represents an unfinished job – or play or rest. We see incomplete tasks we’ve left to languish at 80%. This week we select a long term project to finish because we have the month to focus on it. Some things sit out…
Join me on a tour, former procrastinators. You’ll need a paper, pen and open eyes. I’ve just toured our house and my eyes have bugged out. I toured each room looking for “the unfinished.” It might be work, play, or rest that is represented, but something is out that should’ve been put away or completed….
As we consider a lifestyle of thanksgiving, former procrastinators, we remember gratitude comes from God’s grace toward us. We in turn, show grace to others – and this can be a form of generosity. Generosity: How God’s Radical Grace Makes Us Givers by Tim Keller points out that generosity is not limited to money. It includes…
Fellow former procrastinators, you make me happy and grateful. We’re friends traveling a road we sometimes want to be on and sometimes do not. We want to be different from our natural bent of procrastination, but we don’t relish the process of change. Still we find submission to God’s change in us very rewarding. We…
The influence of others can be very positive, former procrastinators. One friend is very quick to notice small things that are a blessing from the Lord. The way travel plans work out, running into someone in the library, being able to take advantage of a narrow window of opportunity. She sees the blessing and credits…
Doesn’t the nip in the air move you to action, former procrastinators? Between fall’s arrival and our October cleanout projects, I’m revved for the season. Go for a walk, sweep the porch, bake a casserole. Changing leaves and a chill in the air are invigorating. This month we focus on a lifestyle of Thanksgiving as…
Former procrastinators, though we are free in Christ, we can again think and act like slaves. “Do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage” Galatians 5:1 warns us. Let’s THINK, CHOOSE, and ACT like we’re free – avoid the old ways that entrap us, and live as the new women Christ has made…
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8
. . . you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
Colossians 3:9-10