Forty Days Challenge

It's another #LENTCHALLENGE, if you do that hachtag thing, with Margaret Feinberg. Last year I joined her challenge through FACEBOOK and really enjoyed sharing it with my family and friends.

A few years back I gave up FACEBOOK for Lent. Another year I gave up soda. Another chocolate. Simple things that I believe didn't really matter to God either. I had a feeling he wanted more from me. So last year instead of giving up anything I GAVE of myself. Be it a smile for someone at the store when I didn't feel like smiling. A word of encouragement to a person who didn't know how to take another step. Doing a chore that my hubby usually did because he was so busy and needed help. It felt really good. For forty days my journal not only held thoughts and prayers for others, but actions I gave to make someone else's life just a little bit better, if only for that moment in time. If anything, a seed had been  planted, and just maybe, something just might have grown. I believe that is what makes him happy and what he wants from us. Not just through Lent or Christmas, but all year. 

When I began this journey wanting him on board, my spiritual counselor said to tune into him daily, hourly if needed. Day after day, week after week, I read, listened, watched everything Jesus. I made him my first thought every morning and gave him my last pray at night. It eventually become a routine after a few stumbles and even some falls. With each bible study I got closer and closer, and am looking for my next study before I am even done with the one I am already on. My head and heart spin out of control, wanting to devour more while at the same time getting all mixed up in the message. I can't wait to get back to small groups. I have missed my ladies. Until then, my computer is my compass.


So this year I am doing another 40 Day Live Lent Challenge with Margaret. After discovering her last year, I have enjoyed her spirit and the way she can creatively bring the bible to life. I bought and printed out my coloring book and tonight, before bed I will dive into coloring live with Luke.






Reading through Luke will be a pleasure, plus it ends with Acts which I have already been reading for a few weeks now with Lisa Harper's, Believing Jesus online bible study! 

I'll be doing double duty for a few weeks since I still have 3 session yet to go with Lisa, but I can manage it. Just as Lisa's finishes up, Margaret's Acts portion begins 3 days later.

I Didn't Mean...

...For a year to go by so quickly!

When it began with a death, then another, then another, it really was a normal year for anyone going through what we did. One death anniversary is over, another one is coming up, and a couple months break before the last one arrives. Though we had been through a death pattern like this before, this time it was different, yet the stages remained the same.

...To not have the desire to write about the bible studies I was struggling through! Still am. I might just redo them again once my heart is stronger. I tend to not see the truth when I am in such darkness and as I read over what I wrote in the sidelines, it shows. Fight Back with Joy, is back on my side table.

My health issues tend to overwhelm me at times and effect my ability to even want to write. Putting together a post can be difficult. Then, to have my faith thoroughly crushed to my bones, writing a post was the last thing I wanted to do. My anger in everyone, including God and Jesus ran rampant! Praise God others knew and know how to wrap their wings around me, embrace me and love me through it.


I am slowly regaining ground, all while walking on some kind of rocky, uneven surface at the same time. The path might not be perfectly smooth, but I think I know how to manage it.

I just bought the book...

I really love Beth Moore! I love her courage and her energy. I have already done a number of her studies, and though the homework can be overwhelming, the results are surely embraced. Someday I hope I can get to a live event so I can feel all that energy.

I am also doing Lisa Harper's online study of...

I had a hard time receiving my code for the free downloads so I ordered my own set of the DVD sessions. I might be a bit behind with the online study, but I am right where I am suppose to be for my study.

Please check back from time to time. 

Que Sera Sera, What ever will be, will be!