Back in the Saddle

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So I took a "little" hiatus over the holidays from my blog.  Hours got a little hectic and time ran a little short.  Between the lack of time and the chaos, I needed to take a little break.  However, when the holidays were over...and I did have the time to start it up again, I ran into one of the problems that I tend to run into a lot.  My "get-up-and-goer" was just not functioning properly.  A downfall of mine that goes as far back as I can remember.

When I'm doing something, I'm on fire, I'm gung-ho, I'm full-bore into it...sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always giving it my best.  However, when I stop, getting started again has just always been hard for me.  This goes back to homework days, relationships, dieting, and sadly, even my spiritual walk.  For example, at times I will pray relentlessly and for whatever reason, I take a break and it's just hard to get back into it.  Sometimes I'm studying like crazy, the Spirit is educating me, I'm growing, and then I just kinda get out of it and get complacent for awhile.  It's not ever how I want to be, but it's my reality...a personality flaw that I just have to deal with.

The way I see it though is that we are always given a choice.  If I know it's a flaw and yet, choose to do it anyway, I am stumbling.  Once a person has stumbled, they can choose to either lay there and let the rest of the racers trample all over them or they can get up and get right back in that race with the goal of getting closer to the front.

That's how I want this venture to be seen.  I'm going to start this blog back up again and I'm going to try to put my heart into it.  For all those (if anyone) who choose to read it, I hope that it is uplifting, a little humorous, helpful at times, or simply just entertaining.

Just remember that we all stumble and we all fall.  Do we lay there or get back up?  God wants us to get back up.

James 3:2~ For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.

Hebrews 4:15~ For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.