faith journaling

I am having a brain overload from all the homework I am trying to catch up on.  I am taking a much needed break to take in all this information.  Writing has become my way of comprehending all I am reading.  If I just read the info, it goes in the brain and is stored in a place where I can never find it again. :) 

This week's DVD part of the study was actually kind of boring for me, but the homework was outstanding.  I think it was my fault last Tuesday though.  I was so tired because I only slept about five hours.  I don't do good on five hours of sleep.  I need a full 8+ to be a Godly woman. For real. :)  Less than that and I want to claw peoples eyeballs out over nothing! 

The study this week is talking about remembering the past.  I love the scripture she uses in Joshua 4:4-7.  It talks about how the Israelite's were to pick up stones and put them on their shoulder so their children would ask, "what do those stones mean?"  Kind of a weird thing to do when you think about it, but hey, there are a lot of weird things in the Bible.  It was to be a memorial or a way of remembering God's works.   I love how Duet. talks about how we are to talk about the law to our children everyday when we walk, sit, eat and stand.  I love this. Anything that is important to us, will be probably be important to our kids.  One of the cool things about being in the Chaplaincy community is getting to be around Jewish Rabbi's.   Have you ever seen how they bind the words on their arms?  It's pretty interesting.  Makes you see the verse Duet. in a new light. 

Beth Moore asked us to journal our faith journey from birth-now.  I love this!  She wants us to write it for our children and grandchildren.   I really do believe with every single ounce of who I am that God has always remembered me.   It is so cool to go back from birth and remember the moments of just playing outside looking up from a treetop and knowing that God was all around you.   Some people do not experience life as I did surrounded with a loving Christian environment.  Some do not even experience a loving environment.  

I cannot imagine what the must feel like, because I have never experienced that.  I have felt loved from the moment I was born.   A friend of mine says they really felt as a child their mother did not love them.  It is so hard for me to relate to that.  I cannot imagine not loving your own child. 

Writing my faith journal made me realize how incredibly blessed my life has been.  Even though I look out my window and see tons of cold snow, (And sometimes that makes me want to scream), my life is better than I deserve.