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Sometimes the best way to wait for the tea kettle to boil is with your feet up on the counter, looking at the mess in the sink. Dishes in the sink means the house is lived in, okay?

This week I:

• painted 2 rooms! had a paint fight while we were at it. and now my room is clean and white.
• because of Easter, I thought a lot about how the resurrection of Christ brings hope and life into my life right now. The gospel speaks truth and joy and hope into the realities of everyday. I've been starting to realize this more and more. "We seem to believe that we are justified by faith alone in the gospel of Christ, but from then on, it's pretty much up to us to accomplish our sanctification. We fail to see that being made right by God happens through faith, and growth comes through faith also. The faith that saves is the faith that sanctifies, because it rests alone on Christ and his work." -Rose Marie Miller, from "From Fear to Freedom."
• I have not been truly praying the way that I want to. It's amazing to see the way my heart so quickly turns to discontentedness, fear, anxiety, laziness, and grumpiness when I don't pray. When I'm not remembering to praise God, to have a thankful heart, and when I'm not asking for the Holy Spirit to be at work in my life. I have been seeing my need for Christ so so much. So here is to a week where I am turning to Him constantly... it's the only way!