Tracy's Blog

What if part of the "work" I am called to do is pray?  Why is it hard to find time to pray for my work? Will prayer make a difference in the work I do? These are questions that have been rumbling around in my head recently. I do believe that prayer is part of the work I am called to do and I am to pray for my work as well as many other things.  But then, if I am convinced of this, why is it so difficult to actually getting down to it?  Even right now, it is "easier" to type this blog than to stop and pray.  What is the resistance? Maybe it is a lack of faith or a lack of hope that my prayers will make a difference.  Maybe it is because it feels like hard work to pray.  I'm not sure. And maybe I'll never get it figured out.  The more important thing is to obey than to get insight into why I am not obeying.  So, to get me going on prayer, I thought I'd look up some Scripture, ask myself a few questions, and just do it....

Most people my age have worked fulltime (Monday to Friday, 9 to 5) for years.  Actually, probably years and years!  This is not the case with me.  I am just hitting 18 months of it. Since most of my work has been in Christian ministry, my hours were never 9 to 5 and the majority of the time, I was part-time. Why am I telling you this?  Well, because I have decided that over the next few weeks to think more about work.  It has been a challenge to adjust to a fulltime work schedule.  It has also been a challenge and blessing to work in a setting that is not overtly Christian.  I feel like it is time to give this aspect of my life some prayerful attention and you get to listen to my processing. Actually, I would love it if you gave me your input along the way as well either through replying to my blog (if you get it as an email) or commenting online at celtj . blogspot .com .  I also want to ask you to pray for me with r...

Happy New Year!  I know it has been a long time since I've blogged... almost a month.  After a joyful and restful Christmas Season, I am glad to be back into routine and am hoping to make weekly blogging a part of it. With the New Year has come a new resolve for clarity, determination, and diligence in my life.  I am trusting the Holy Spirit to give me the fruit of self-control which I've come to experience as "resisting the resistance" in me.  Ultimately, by God's grace, I do want to do good/obey God but often there is an initial resistance that needs to be overcome.  Resisting that resistance is one way to define self-control. But that isn't actually what I want to blog about today. Today is it all about the dishes.  The dishes?!  Yes, you read that right.  For those who have known me a long time, you will know that "the dishes" represent a long struggle with the menial tasks of everyday life that I have found cumbersome and bori...