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Choosing The We Over Me

Recently I bought the book called Emptied by the late Wynter Pitts and her husband Jonathan Pitts. When I bought this in my head I was thinking ok good this book is going to validate me and my feelings. This book is going to show me how I need my husband to do some things better. See these are all the things I have been talking about. Oh how I can imagine God laughing at me knowing what was waiting for me when I opened this book. Lately life has gotten crazy. I mean we have three kids and each of their different schedules it can make life pretty stressful at times. Not even throwing in all their sporting activities. His crazy call schedule and I have a list of things I am doing that run a mile long. It is so easy to let these things in life overwhelm you and you suddenly sit and realize that you and your spouse have not had a date night since who knows when. That you have been talking so much kid talk that you haven’t spent true time with each other. Its easy when this happens to start focusing…

What Really Has Your Heart

For a few weeks I have felt this heaviness and this nagging at my heart God was speaking to me, and I could feel it I just didn’t want to listen. Maybe it’s because I don’t want to admit that I was doing anything wrong. Maybe it’s because the fear of letting go of something is going to have major backlash on what I am trying to do. Then yesterday at mass with Father Bose and today on my podcast with Craig Groeschel I was reminded that I am trying to run from what God is trying to show me. I have one too many distractions in my line of sight to keep me from seeing what God is trying to show me. Have you ever experienced this? When you try to ignore it, it just keeps showing up in all different places until it smacks you right in the face.  I allow myself to become very distracted with things in this world that takes my heart and my eyes off of what God is trying to get to me to do. Writing my blog is important for me I really enjoy…