Get out your shovel…

I have been convicted time and time again (unfortunately that means that I don’t learn the first time!) by the Holy Spirit that if I want a deeper relationship with my wife… my children… my Savior…

I have to get my shovel out.

Why?

Because I have a lot of dirt to get through.  Not in them… but in me.  The dust of the world builds up on us.  And if we aren’t careful we bring it home.  And it begins to become a landfill.

The greatest gifts God gives us always require the most involvement on our part.

We are given the Holy Spirit and charged not to quench it but to rekindle the fire.

We are given talents and told not to bury them.

We are given salvation and told to press on for the prize, and to finish the race.

Why do I continue to assume that the amazing gift of grace that God gave me by allowing me to marry the most incredible woman in the world will take care of itself?

Why is it that I take those I love the most for the most granted when I should be taken them to a place of honor?

Because I get distracted.  And that is not an excuse… it is a verdict. 

Distracted is made up of a few words and word parts.  At the end of the day it means taken down many tracks.

I choose to attempt to run my train of thought, my focus on more than one track. 

Ain’t gonna happen. 

I need to stay on one set of rails… the ones that lead to my wife’s heart.

It is so easy to take on too much and fail to realize that when we do that we often wind up putting our wives down.  And that is no pun intended.  We think that just verbal “putting down” exists.  Sorry to break it to you… but our wives know the difference between us blowing “smoke” and outright blowing “it.”

We put our wives… and our children… down when we fail to lift them up.

I really need to know this… I need to LEARN this… to retain it and put it to use.

Make that your prayer for me, please… that I always lift my wife and children up, and that I stay on those tracks.

SDG