Loving It

Today I am really loving it.  Loving the morning, loving the green tea, loving starting a budget (we have finished our 3rd lesson in Financial Peace University), loving being an adult, loving reading God's word, and loving being a part of the family of God.  I had been dealing with a taste of bitterness at the beginning of the year having to dig through my fantasies and pull out who I am and not who I want to be like or who I want to copy.  I want to be me- whoever that is and embrace the now. 

Since the internet went down right around Christmas time and did not return till around the end of January I missed my regular interaction with my favorite Bible study site Good Morning Girls.  I will keep promoting them because they are so refreshing and down to earth.  It is reading from the word.  It is studying and digging deep.  It has lead me to want to wake up early (5:30 in the am) just to start the day.  I admit I am not always as faithful as I would like to be because sometimes my children have a cold or the baby is teething and that requires an all night nurse.  But God gives the grace and you just start over again when you feel rested and well.  After missing out for so long it was hard to just jump right in again, but I am back.  I am starting the Luke Bible study and I am SO EXCITED! 

One of the contributors to the Bible study started off with a quote from The Jesus Storybook Bible author is Sally Lloyd-Jones.  It gives me chills and makes me tear up every time I read it.  I highly recommended reading this book to your children or even to yourself.  It helps to answer, for me, the question as to why is the Bible so big?  Why didn't God just leave us John 3:16 and be done with it?  It changed my reading of the Bible dramatically.  I am forever grateful that my sister-in-law gave this gift to my girls and we have read it through at least 3 times already.  

“No, the Bible isn’t {just} a book of rules, or a book of heroes.  The Bible is most of all a Story.  It’s an adventure story about a young Hero who comes from a far country to win back his lost treasure. 

It’s a love story about a brave Prince who leaves his palace, his throne ~ everything ~ to rescue the one he loves.  It’s like the most wonderful of fairy tales that has come true in real life! 

You see, the best thing about this Story is ~ it’s true.  There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. 

The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. 

It takes the whole Bible to tell this Story.  And at the center of the Story, there is a baby.  Every Story in the Bible whispers his name. 

He is like the missing piece in a puzzle ~ the piece that makes all other pieces fit together, and suddenly you can see a beautiful picture.”