Good Morning Girls!   It's Monday.  It feels like a Monday.  I am feeling a little like a brooding writer.  The words are not coming for me.   I am going to let Paul speak for me.........

I don't really understand myself, for I want to do what is right but I don't do it.  Instead I do what I hate.  But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good.  So I am not the one doing wrong; it is the sin living in me that does it.  And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.  I want to do what is right but I can't.  I want to do what is good, but I don't.  I don't want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.  But if I do what I don't want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is the sin living in me that does it.
I have discovered this principle of life-that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.  I love God's law with all my heart.  but there is another power within me that is at war with my mind.  This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
Oh what a miserable person I am!  Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?  Thank God the answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.  So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.  Romans 7:15-25 NLT

Sugar.....Ugh!  Caffeine.....ARgh!  Yelling at the kids.....Ugh!   Being selfish when it comes to Tom......Argh!  Each day I desire to do what is right.......but a few donut holes later I am sitting there thinking "seriously......seriously......what is up with this!!!???"  "This is not me!  I am stronger than this!  What is up with breaking all of these promises to myself!  When will I get it right?!"

I figure I have to options.....I can sit and meditate on my most recent failure.....or I can pick myself up yet again, and take one more step forward.  I choose option number two......who's with me?


Romans 8:1 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus (that means we should not sit around feeling guilty........just get up and try again)

Love you all-
Jen