The Laziness is Ending...

Anyone else feeling overwhelmed by all the fall activities starting up?  I’ve so enjoyed a summer of not-very-many commitments.  Though I must say, I have gotten quite lazy.  So now it’s time to be disciplined again – no more waiting to do the dishes until morning, because there won’t be time to do them then – we’ll be off to Bible study early, or a meeting, or preschool…somewhere. 

I am excited to get going on Bible studies again.  I have been involved in one this summer with a good friend – we have really enjoyed this one.  It’s called Calm My Anxious Heart and was written by Linda Dillow.  A fantastic – though convicting – book about contentment, anxiety, doubt – I highly recommend it to every woman out there.  The author takes you through each item using Scripture and shows you how to deal with each, giving it to God.  Amazing.

But now it’s nearly over, and Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) is starting.  I can’t wait!  We are in the book of Acts this year.  I have read through it once with the boys already – a good bedtime read for them, I must say.  Puts them right to sleep.  But hopefully at least Ben is retaining some of it!  I started it over again with them the other night.  Maybe we’ll get through it a second time before the study starts in September.  I am so thrilled that both boys are coming with me this year to the day class, and that they will be learning right along with me. 

Also it’s time for our Community Group to start up again!  We had barely started our study in the book of Romans before we broke for summer.  So I look forward to that starting up again, and to seeing our dear friends again on a more regular basis, and not just the occasional wave on a Sunday morning.  I love our Community Group – we have been involved with it for eight years now and it is truly our “Tucson family.” 

I just realized that I will have one Bible study in which I attend with my boys, where we’ll be studying Acts – and then Romans that my husband and I will attend together (he is the leader of the group).   We are all about the New Testament and the Apostle Paul this year!!  This was not planned.  (And it’s a good break from the wonderful-yet-intense-Isaiah study last year.)  Ah, I will be held accountable on all sides.  This could get interesting. 

On a different note, Benjamin has moved up to the four-year-old class in his preschool.  He starts this week and is very excited!  I have Sam on the waiting list for the two-year-old class, but it may take a while for him to get in.  However, I don’t know if preschool will work out with our BSF schedule (Monday morning Leaders’ meeting and Tuesday morning Class Day) – if they are too stressed by the busy-ness, then I’ll pull them out of preschool.  I don’t want to be one of those moms who over-commits her kids and gets them all stressed out.  So we’ll play it all by ear.

Who would want to stress these little guys out?  Not this mama.

Picking bark off their grandparents' tree in Wichita last week