Time... how is yours?

Every day I receive a brief devotional written by my pastor, Bryant Wright. It's not a personal email from him, although that would be nice, it is sent out via a ministry that he started, Right From the Heart. www.rightfromtheheart.org More often than not, these devotionals are rather timely. Such was the case 2 days ago as I have been thinking about the time that I am given each day. Am I doing the most with it? Am I wasting it on fb?! (Yes! See yesterday's posting.) The gist of the message is based on scripture encouraging one to make the most of their time/day. He goes straight to the point in evaluating how one spends their time/day.

I tried to copy and paste the devotional here, but for whatever reason, it wouldn't paste. If interested, you may click on the following link to read the short devotional yourself.
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&shva=1#inbox/12ebd28036400c29

"They" say that the first step toward freedom is admitting that you have a problem. Yes, I do for sure. I am a queen of procrastinating and filling my valuable time with useless measures in failed attempts of accomplishing tasks. However, I do know that God's word is a good source and reminder of how and what I should be doing, and Bryant is brilliant and gentle at correcting the paths of his parishoners. It would be my prayer that you can find His word and his word good resources in managing your time, too.

If you're interested in allowing Bryant to guide you through His word, his words may be purchased here.

One Minute of Your Day
http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Your-Bryant-Wright/dp/1579218415/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300483992&sr=1-7

Right from the Heart: Turning Your Heart Toward God (soon to be published) http://www.amazon.com/Right-Heart-Turning-Your-Toward/dp/1404190023/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1300483992&sr=1-3.

Returning?

Could the "owner" of this site really be returning after an almost 14-month absence? Possibly.

I have decided to give up facebook (fb) for Lent, and tonight I remembered that I had a blog. HA! The computer has actually gotten boring for me, as in checking my email, I realized that everyone must now communicate on fb. I am feeling really out of touch, but a covenant made is a covenant made. It's actually been easy, however boring. I do miss knowing what's going on, too. There is a tremendous disconnected feeling, but I am sure it will be long forgotten once I get reconnected.

The goal in giving up fb is just to make the commitment to refocus my time. I am quite sure I have wasted so much time, time that should have been spent doing other things. Like scrapbooking. Maybe it's time to get back into that scrapbook room and do something productive. Ahhh.... could I invent a fb program that automatically went through my newsfeed and read it out loud to me? In this manner, I could accomplish two things at once! Will someone please get on that?!

At the end of this "assignment" I hope to have reestablished a daily schedule that includes a commitment to my daily quiet time, a brief checking of email/fb, and then accomplishing daily tasks as needed. In fact, now that I am back to blogging and reading other blogs, I have been re- inspired to look into repurposing items... i.e. THRIFTING! My oh, my! There are so many things to do and so little time to do them.

Then again, maybe I'll just stick to blogging OR fb! Time will tell.

Hello again, dear family and friends. Maybe you'll be hearing from me more often in this manner. Love to all!

The last 7 days...

We've been busy at the Jenkins' household. Last weekend, Reid was in his school play, "Little Shop of Horrors". Elizabeth went to Decatur for 3 days last week to tend to marina business, then returned to leave town again for a women's retreat. And today, Sunday, Caroline was in a fashion show for a school chorus fundraiser. Mimi was so gracious to come to town for the entertainment and caregiving purposes. Now I am thankful to say that tomorrow is a new week, and there is only the "normal" routine of practices and lessons on tap for the week. But then, it's off to Gatlinburg to enjoy a long weekend with Papaw and Cissy.

Joel continues a normal routine of 3-a-day workouts and routine flying missions in Iraq. He's holding up well considering the circumstances, but we miss him terribly and long for a 2-week vacation in Europe with him this summer.

Here a some photos of the activities of this past week. Nevermind... stay tuned. It appears I've "exceeded my photo upload quota". Guess I'll need to research this and get back to posting photos later. Sorry.

Hitting Lesson

In an effort to assist Joel with viewing these videos, I am posting some here. This one is a snippet of Caroline at her indoor hitting lesson.

Snowflakes

Did you know that snowflakes actually look like this?!

While sitting in the snow taking a break from sledding I started looking at the snowflakes. It is amazing that you can see this with the naked eye. They are beautiful, and I just wanted to share them with you.

Annabelle and Jay

I've been asked to post some updated photos of Miss Annabelle. She is adorable, and I was told today that she has started "talking" and smiling. Guess that just means that I'll have to get a dose of that soon. Actually, I will tonight at our weekly dinner with this family. :-)

On the other hand, Jay is always quick to offer up some "Hi's". (I know there isn't supposed to be an apostrophe there, but it looks like "his" if not, and I don't want you to read it incorrectly.) And when the camera is presented at him, the "Cheese" starts up. At other times, you have to run around the house to keep up with him.

What joy these two offer to us Jenkinses, and we are so very thankful that they are right around the corner for our enjoyment! Now we have to talk the other third of the family to move into our area.

The scene

Reid just HAD to jump in this picture with them!