New Priorities (part one)

Whenever I get serious with God, I find Him challenging me in two specific areas - how I spend my time and how I spend my money.

Time
It is so easy to let the hours fritter away. A bit of TV here, some Internet surfing there, a chapter or two in a novel and all of a sudden the day is mostly done. The dishes aren't washed, the laundry is in a heap on the bed, nothing is prepared for dinner and I have nothing to show for my day.
Proverbs 31:27 says "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness."
Staying home to raise my child is not an excuse to be idle. It is a different type of job than the 9-5 office job that I'm used to but it is still a job. Just because I can't be fired or earn a promotion, it doesn't mean that I have a free ticket to sit on the couch with a bag of chips and indulge in day time TV.
Colossions 3:23 says "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men."
"Whatever" includes the 9-5 office job as well as the less defined work-at-home-mom. Wash the dishes for God. Fold the laundry and put it away for God. Prepare quality healthy meals for God. Change diapers for God. Walk around the house comforting a fussy baby for God.
May I be the best work-at-home-mom that I can be for the glory of God.

I'll tackle money tomorrow.

Welcome

I am a wife (to Scott) and mother to one beautiful baby girl (Adrianna). I am currently on maternity leave and am praying that God will make a way for me to be a stay at home mom and raise my daughter (and future children). In praying about this matter, I felt God lead me to begin a blog - so here I am.

This blog is based on 2 Corinthians 4:18 - "So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." It is a desire of mine to view my life through "eternity eyes" and begin to see God in the seemingly mundane day to day. My prayer is that you would do the same.