Lets do this. Again.

Today is January 31, 2013. I wrote this post February 12, 2012! - I am starting again tomorrow. I will let you know how it goes!!

I have so much more than most and sometimes I feel so sad that I don't have more. I drive a nice vehicle, I live in a nice apartment, I have a great job. I have 3 healthy children, a beautiful healthy granddaughter. My mom and dad are huge parts of my life and I would so not be here without them. I have 2 sisters and a brother who are all healthy, have jobs and doing well. I have 2 grown nephews and a beautiful little niece. My family. My family is the most amazing thing in my life. I have cousins, lots of them, all of them that I got to grow up with, somewhere now in the ball park of 20 first cousins, which I am still in contact with all of them, on a semi-regular basis, and a few of them on a weekly basis. I am a lucky chick. I have a boyfriend who has 3 amazing kiddos too. I am blessed. I say that a lot. But am I?? I love Jesus. He knows it. Does he love me in return? I have been greedy and spoiled my whole life. Even tho I don't have a lot of "stuff" I have a lot. Something is missing. I have searched and searched. I realized as I read the first chapter of this book that I was hollow and shallow. I'm a nice, genuine person but, I am hollow. I go to church, sometimes. I pray, sometimes. I love Jesus, always. But is it enough? I think that in some respects of my life, I have too much and in others not enough. The problem is, I have them all mixed up. I need less "stuff" and more Jesus! I need to clear out the "stuff" to make more room for him. This is a seven month journey that I am about to take to clear out the Excess and make room for Success!!

The book Seven is written by an amazing woman named Jen Hatmaker. She is the wife, a mother, a woman of God, a REALIST, who isn't at all afraid to let the world know that she has flaws.

Seven: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess is a seven month bible study in clearing out the excess and making more room for the Holy Spirit. Today, I will start month one. Food. Month 2 is Clothing. Month 3 Possesions. Month 4 Media. Month 5 Waste. Month 6 Spending (which really should be month one for me!) and month 7 Stress.

Tomorrow is the day. Day 1. A whole year later. Has anything changed?