Summer Habit

Summertime is suppose to be hot and lazy. We have the hot covered pretty good here in Georgia. However, I have been developing a good habit this summer. I have developed a good morning devotion and prayer time. For awhile I was struggling with finding time to spend with God and praying (and feeling guilty about it). One day I was at Wal-Mart and found a little book "The Busy Mom's Guide to Prayer" by Lisa Whelchel. It is a guided prayer journal where you pray through six categories - praise, self, husband, children, personal influences, and reaching beyond. You pray through these categories with a different focus each day for 20 days (one month Monday - Friday). At the end of the month you start back at Day 1 and pray about the issues again. It has been very encouraging and inspiring to me. I have found a time in the morning to do this while my kids are still sleeping and while I'm waiting for my daycare kids to come. After praying through this 2 1/2 times I am now trying to develop my own prayer journal to make it a little more personal. I have now added Bible reading and am reading 1 chapter of Romans a day. This sure has helped me to redevelop a prayer time. My concern about school starting is my schedule will be changing. This time I now spend praying and journaling I will be getting both girls up and dressed to go out the door. No more just letting them get up on there own and taking it easy until I am finished with my time. In order for me to continue with this time I will have to have it more structured and will have to get up eariler and I'm not looking forward to that. However this habit brings me such joy I know it will be worth it. I will try to continue to post and record how the early morning is going. I think for me to stick with it I will just have to make a commitment to stick with it no matter what.

Until Later,
Betty