I am a terrible blogger. I freely admit it. I guess every time I went to the Journey to Lyra site to post the last couple of months it felt too hard. Although we are still getting to know Lyra and value her, the posts in my head were not all about Lyra anymore. I have been meaning to start a new blog months ago but life passes before my eyes - I look around and it is the weekend again. Enter Chaos. Chaos describes my life very well these days. With 1 husband, 4 kids, 1 dog, 9 cats, 2 hermit crabs, and 1 fish, it is so hard to keep track of what day it is, let alone if I've blogged lately. I keep hoping it's just a stage but I have come to embrace the chaos. I read in my Bible the other day the following verse:
Psalm 51:7
Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise.
It gives me hope that God can use my life with the blemishes and can put a fresh wind in my sails. How awesome is that! I won't promise to post daily but will attempt to keep everyone updated on our family.
