So Blessed

As I look back on my 25 years, I can't help but see how blessed I am!  I have a family that loves me, despite ALL of my imperfections.  I'm surrounded by friends who make me laugh and keep me spiritually accountable.  I go to a job I love each day and do my best to inspire my students to learn more and push themselves.  At the end of the day, I have a home to go to and food to eat.  I have a church family that loves the Lord and each other.  Really...I'm blessed so much more than I deserve.

And yet...some days I get wrapped up in the things I don't have.  Why do I let those thoughts consume me at times?

While reading another blog this morning, I was reminded that Satan hits us where he knows it'll hurt.  It's a different thing for each person, but he does his best to get us down and then kick us while we're lying there.

I have a professional blog, but wanted one that was more personal.  While setting this one up, I took some time to really think about what I wanted the title to be.  Proverbs 31:30 popped into my head.  "Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."  It reminded me of what REALLY matters.  I get so caught up in things I want sometimes that I forget what really matters...my relationship with the Lord.  Fearing Him, so to speak.  Learning so much about Him that everything else seems meaningless.

So...I'm striving for Proverbs 31.  Striving to put the Lord first at all times and remind myself that the other things don't even compare.