How This All Started

  Hello Reader! Welcome to my newest blog about becoming organized! This journey is a new one for myself and I hope that you will bear with me as I make mistakes and learn along the way.

 This whole thing started simply because 2011 was just too CHAOTIC! When I say chaotic I mean... being pregnant with two little ones/husband losing his job/worst pregnancy ever/big changes with church and friends/struggling to make ends meet... chaotic. There were so many things happening that the LAST thing I would want to do would be clean up the house or make a nice meal or invest in myself.  After having my newest addition to the family, I noticed that everything was spiraling out of my control and I just needed to fix it! So I stepped back and asked myself, "What do I have control over?" and here are the three things I came up with.

1.) I have control over my Faith. The Lord has given me His Word, His Love, His Son, AND the power of prayer. These are things that need to be incorporated into my every moment of every day. Living in such a harsh and broken world I find myself needing Him more and more.

2.) I have control over my house. My house was meant to be a home to find refuge and security from the world. Proverbs 24:3,4 says "³ By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
⁴ by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. " I realized that I can turn my home into a place I long to be, not a prison of my clutter and disorganization.

3.) I have control over my health. I have put my health on the back burner for a long time, if I had time to work out I had time to be cleaning or doing dishes or something else. If goal 1 and goal 2 are met then there should be plenty of room in my life for my own health, which the Lord finds important too, 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body. "

This brings me to my next realization. If God wants my home and my body to be a wise place where He is glorified....what is the key? The key is keeping it simple. So many times people run around thinking they need to do a million good works to get into the gates of Heaven, when really, God has made it so simple for us. Faith. It is all so simple....and here goes my best foot forward on making my life simplified and glorifying to Him.