God has given me a beautiful day today. I am sitting in my living room looking out my very dirty, needs to be cleaned, front windows and it is breathtaking to me. God has given us such a wonderful view if we just take the time to look around us. I get so busy in my life that I forget to look around and enjoy God's scenery.  I am still recouping so I am able to sit and look instead of rushing to do the 50 million things I want to be able to do and really just physically can't yet.  I have been thinking of how busy I have let my life get and how sometimes I have even been too busy for God. Hummmm....something to think about isn't it?

I could have died a few weeks ago, no not an exaggeration, a fact.  I am not saying this to evoke sympathy or anything like that, just truth.  The situation that lead to my most recent surgery was life threatening and even though I am not sure I understood it fully at the time, I certainly do now and am grateful for God's intervention to spare it.  I know without a doubt that God isn't finished with me and has more work for me to do here on earth for Him.  So now that I am fully aware of this fact, am I going to change things? I am certainly going to try to be more in Him and less in the world.  I am certainly going to put my life on His plan for me and less on me. I understand the seriousness of all of this and I was ready to die if that was His plan for me, but He obviously wasn't done with me! Has nothing to do with me or my life, but everything to do with Him. Always remember that our lives are not ours if we are His children, our lives should belong to God.  Everything we do should point to Him, whether at our jobs each day, hanging with friends, time with family or even just doing a load of laundry! If we are His children, then we ought to act like it.  Just my observation for my life...

My verse for today and yesterday is in Titus 2:3,4,&5 (NASB) "Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored."

Wow! Powerful verses for us older women! The way we live and the examples we set in the world affect those young women around us. Hum....Is my life something that they can look at to see how to love their husbands and their families and to pattern their lives after? Is my attitude one that I want them to take into their own selves and use? Is my life an honor to God or to myself?  I can't answer these questions for anyone else, but I can answer for my own.  I pray that my life shows Christ, I pray and strive that I am the example He wants me to be and I pray that my attitude is always Godly and prayerful and not snotty and worldly.  I pray that when the world tries to take over my heart and life that I immediately turn to God in prayer and bible study to pull my heart back to Him. 

None of us are perfect, far, far from it, but as Christian women, we do have a responsibility to show a life dedicated to God and His service.  I have always known this but until recently it was not as real as it is now to me.  I just have one final question.......What kind of example are you and I to the world?  Are we inspiring young women to want God in their lives or the world?  Are we living so that others know what we believe and what we stand for?  Are we showing Christ?  Just something to think about today, I know I will.