30 Day Challenge - Friday update:

Whew! Busy/crazy week, and it's not over yet! Daily reading is going well. Loving reading Proverbs - reading it slowly and purposefully & rereading it if my mind wanders... So good! What hit me the most in the first four chapters was that Wisdom & Understanding are there for the taking-God just calls us to orient our lives so we receive what He's so readily provided. The picture I get in my head is that Wisdom (capitalized because she is personified in the Proverbs) is there at every turn, pursuing us, available to us, and we'd almost have to purposely avoid her if we didn't want her influence on our lives...

Reading Acts has been really good too. I'm glad that I'm reading it, but also need to go back and listen to the sermons that go with the readings to feel really caught up. Very challenging to read about the first church and realize that they were not perfect, but very much praying for boldness to share the gospel and the Lord heard them and answered their prayers...

Going to go to get ready for bed now since today was one of "those days".... Keeley has an ear infection and for the past two days pretty much hasn't napped, let me put her down for long at all, or eaten more than two bites of what I've given her to eat. I'm amazed that she's still crying tears because she doesn't seem to be hydrated compared to what she normally drinks... Sarah's still running a temp & has a sore throat... SOOOO glad we live in a time where they have antibiotics (and TV)! And Todd is going out of town for three days... God is my strength, God is my strength....A lot of prayer lately...