open house

gee whiz....it has been too long since i last blogged. if you are still reading this thing i really appreciate your patience with me.

last thursday night we went to my 1st graders open house at school. i love open house. it is so cool to see my daughter light up when she is telling us about her work and showing us around her classroom. you would think she was starring in an episode of "cribs" when she is showing us her desk! it is so cool!

one of the things that caught my attention this year was a side by side comparison of her writing skills since the first day of school. on a piece of posterboard the teacher had a sheet on the left that showed how she spelled (or rather mispelled) her name on day one. her penmanship was lacking....she gets that from her dad!! on the right side of the posterboard was a sheet of paper that she had completed that week. she has not only spelled her name correctly but her penmanship was very precise. it was really unbelievable how much she had sharpened those skills in a relatively short amount of time.

the next morning i was reading through a chapter in the book of Jeremiah. i couldn't help but wonder what my spiritual life would look like if you could view my life/motives/thoughts/habits/knowledge of the word on the day i crossed the line of faith and compare it to today...

have i grown in my faith? have i gained a more precise understanding of the word of God? am i better able to articulate His truth today than i was back then? what areas of my life/motives/thoughts and etc have remained basically the same....or even perhaps regressed a bit?

why has her penmanship improved so much? because she focuses on it every day. at least 5 days a week she is sitting at a desk with pencil and paper and practicing writing the same letters over and over. she is beginning to see how those letters lead to thoughts and how thoughts lead to imagination and how imagination leads to creativity and how creativity leads to actions. as a result she continues to practice....to learn....

how about you? what have you been practicing/thinking about/ studying/craving lately? maybe our voice as believers would be louder in our culture if people saw us progressively getting stronger in our faith.

let's pray for each other....