Tracy's Blog

I am so happy!  Yesterday I started a women's small group with friends in Selkirk.  A couple of the ladies were in the last small group I had here which ended three years ago and I have hardly seen them since.  It is surprising to me that I have lived in Manitoba long enough to have friends like that!  I am so grateful to God for this opportunity to fellowship, study Scripture, and pray together every Thursday morning.  We are studying Philippians so that will be the topic of my blog this fall. Let's jump in: Philippians 1:1-2 "Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." There are two things that stood out to me from this greeting.  Identity and attitude. First, identity.    Paul and Timothy describe themselves as "servants of Christ Jesus" .  I don't know about fi...

The other day I was rushing out the door to an appointment when I looked at the list I had written of what I had hoped to get done in the hour before I needed to leave the house.  Only one of the items on the list was accomplished and I hadn't wasted any time.  What about the other 3 things?  "That's was a wish list..... not a to-do list!" I said to myself. The idea has stuck with me so I have been pondering it and talking with people about it over the last two days.  What I have realized is that I make wish lists instead of making realistic plans.  This has been a long-term chronic time management problem of mine.  My lists can get really long!  They are more lists of things I wished were done/completed than things I am willing or able to do in the time available.  Maybe I am hoping my life will be like a montage in a movie when days and weeks of work get completed by the end of a song!  But life isn't a movie and there is no sound track t...