Discipline and Another Lesson in Trusting God

I realize that I haven't blogged since last Monday, but I honestly have had a lack of things to share. I often share things that are not meaningful at all and in an effort to spare you from my random ramblings, I simply chose not to blog. On Friday, my dear friend Jenna and I started doing a Bible study together. The two of us actually started this study with Marie Bishop, our freshman year of college, but when she moved to Kentucky, we stopped meeting. The study is Disciplines of a Godly Woman, and I feel like we are both in a place where we could use discipline. Jenna is on the verge of graduating college and I am a new wife. Both places in life that require discipline. Our first study went really well, here is what I got from Chapter 1.

-Spotaneity isn't an excuse for me to ignore the importance of discipline.
This is something I struggle with, while I enjoy structure and scheduling, all too often my life is interupted by my spontaneous notions to do this or that. And I have found that rather than having that scheduled quiet time, it has become spontaneous as well. I plan to do it at a certain time, but something comes up and it gets placed in a random spot and oftentimes, I regret to say this, it gets left out altogether. I realize that if I can make time for so many other things, that I need to make it a priority to make time for the one thing that matters most. This is what I am working on doing this week. Hopefully if I start making it a habit this week that will translate into next week and the next week and so forth.

-We need to get rid of every association, habit, and tendency that impedes godliness.
While I am not regularly around people who would bring me down, persay, I do tend to have problems with other things. A lack of time managemnent is one area I struggle with. I get home from work in the afternoons and instead of reading my Bible or doing something beneficial, I sit down and watch a little television or I get on the computer and realize two hours later that I am going to have to rush to get supper ready. While I suppose that watching tv and getting on the computer are not necessarily sinful in and of themselves, when they take time away from God they become such. Now I am not going to stop watching tv and getting on the computer, but I am going to work on managing my time in the afternoons so that I am taking care of what needs taking care of and then doing the less meaningful things such as these.

Those are just two of the things I picked out from Chapter 1, it was a rather short chapter but still a great start to the study. I started reading Chapter 2 today, and I am already well aware that there will be much more to share from there.

Another point to share is that tomorrow, Drew will start a new job. He has been working for a company at the Selma Paper Mill for a while now, but honestly we both feel it isn't going anywhere. Drew talked to a friend of his whose wife works for a company at the Prattville Mill and he told him they were looking for some people. Drew contacted them and the lady told him that he was already on the list to be contacted, which I think says alot about his reputation as far as being a hard worker. At any rate he is supposed to start tomorrow. This is a blessing in many ways, but also another lesson in trusting God. If Drew does a good job, he could move up and earn more money, but if work slows down he will be the low man on the totem pole and that could mean getting laid off down the road. I suppose that with the economy the way it is, this could be true for any job, but the thought is still in the back of my mind. We both are excited about this new adventure, and I have a feeling that if nothing else comes from this, we will at least have a greater prayer life than we did prior to the job move. Please pray with us that this will prove to be a good career move and that God will bless Drew and use him to witness to the new men he will be working with.