Blogging re-direction

I have not been blogging a lot lately. Writing is something I love. Blogging is something I have enjoyed for a couple of years now. I wanted to really “get serious” about it and was doing well for a while but then completely lost motivation….
I love saving money. I love decorating. I love teaching my kids. I am passionate about being a “stay-at-home mom”. I do have some ideas but none of this was enough to sacrifice my time and energy to maintain this blog.
So, I quit for a bit and tried to refocus.
Quite unexpectedly I think I figured out what I want to blog/write about.
Here is a little background:

In 2001, I journeyed with 10 or 11 other people from my church on a mission trip to Buenos Aries, Argentina. We served there for one short week. In that week, we served a local church by distributing promotional materials, held a camp for kids, visited an orphanage, put on a puppet show in a school and performed dramas in a couple of the town squares. There was nothing too different about this mission trip than any other foreign mission trip.
For me it meant waking up every single day to live for Jesus and tell others about Him. He was constantly my focus. He was constantly my goal. There were some inconveniences through out the week but there was a lot of fun too!!! Regardless of the activities for the day, my focus was Christ!
I remember the sadness I felt as I loaded the plane to take us back to the States. This week without a doubt had been the best week of my life. There was great joy and simplicity on the mission field. Even though I was dying for a Chick-fil-a sandwich and some sweet tea, I didn’t want to leave that place!
When I stepped off the plane, I thought occurred to me. “Why should life be different here in America? Was I not called to live for Christ here? How could I live mission-ally at home?” As I searched the Bible, I found no reason why that focus and determination for the gospel should be left to missionaries. Instead I was convicted by scriptures like this….

“And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” -Matthew 10:38
“but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Acts 1:8
“Therefore I urge you bretheren, by the mercies of God,to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship to God.” – Romans 12:1
“For me to live is Christ and to die is gain”. Philippians 1:21

These are just a few. What I felt the Lord leading me to do was to live missionaly, even here in America. There really in no difference in the urgency or the calling or the gospel, only the geographical location.

So I am re-directing my blog a bit. I may change the URL…. not decided on that one but I will change my focus a bit. I feel like I have had all these topics floating around with nothing to anchor them. For the most part they all do anchor to missional living but I want to be more deliberate.
I am going to write very practically too. This will not be a blog of ideas and philosophies and link to great writers about missional, Christ centered living. I am going to write about how to throw a party to meet your neighbors or how to save money so that you may give more or how to simplify and organize you home in effort to be able to focus more on what is important.
I am NO expert but I have picked up some tips along the way! I hope to meet and link some other bloggers who have great ideas to link and share too!

If this is to be nothing more for me than a source of accountability for myself, then I’m okay with that. My desire and hope is that this blog will be a source of inspiration and practical help to live for Christ!

More blogging coming soon!

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