Signing Off - For a time

Hey friends and fellow bloggers I am going to take a LONG blogging break. This stay-at-home, homeschooling mom of four cannot keep up with blogging without getting behind on my digital photo albums, compromising quality time with my children, quality time with husband, or quality time sleeping. In other words, this is currently LAST on my list of priorities.

However, if in bloggityville you search for and find encouragement for your souls then I would promptly point you to my very dear friend's site Raising Five. She has made a ministry of her blog. It's not just a hobby, she truly encourages those in the trenches by being real and by being godly.

Blogging has been a fun learning experience and I will certainly return to it in the future, if the Lord allows. For now, I am needed elsewhere. If you want to know the next time I post (which could be next summer) you should probably subscribe to receive an email when I post something new. Just look down the side bar of my blog and click on the link (don't worry Mom, no one will try to sell you anything after you enter your email address).

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven -- Ecc. 3:1

Deep Thoughts

Being new to Blogittyville and not having ventured far and wide in it, I have a limited view of this "place". I have skipped around a little bit, but for the most part I have stayed within a circle of bloggers that are Christian moms. I have been amazed (and pleasantly surprised) by many of the posts. Your heart for the Lord and your desire to live for Him come through loud and clear. I continue to be amazed by your ability to express your thoughts in such beautiful ways.

Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.

You ladies sharpen me! Bring it on! Keep challenging me! However, the depth of thought on many of your blogs has been both challenging and troublesome for me. I began to ask myself: How do they have time to develop such deep thoughts? Am I too busy? Am I just living on the surface? Am I even capable of thinking deeply anymore? In essence, I began to compare myself to you as I read your blogs. Now comparing ourselves to anyone can be just down right discouraging. That's a topic for another post.

But, isn't it amazing how subtle pride is? I have wallowed around for weeks thinking that I "needed" to post something more thought provoking or more spiritual to keep up with you ladies (little PRIDE slipping in there ya think?) What a twisted way to look at things. This is not a competition. We are all gifted in different ways and you are using your gifts in wonderful ways.

Romans 12:4-6

For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly...

May the Lord put to death my desire to "keep up" with the "Blogger Reflection Award" winners and just post what He puts on my heart.

In the Beginning . . .

In the beginning, long-ago before kids, Sherri was a computer programmer. She programmed in COBOL (not C, HTML or even Java). Today, she set out to join the new and fascinating world of her amazing blogger friends!