So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.

Romans 12:1-2, The Message

…the diet…the weight loss…the inability to exercise for six weeks…the panic about gaining the weight back…the screaming, whining, fighting kids…the frustration of not having a bigger impact in my parenting…the urge to do things to my children that would have Children’s Services at my door if I put them in print…..the lack of sleep…the splitting headaches…the fear of intimacy in my relationships…the fear of intimacy in my marriage…the tension between the desire to be fully known yet the fear of the same…the desire to write…the time to write…the actual writing, if and when it happens…the singing…the lack of singing…the lack of music…the worship…the quiet time…the not-so-quiet time…the desire to control it all…

It’s all yours.

Every morning
I lay out the pieces of my life
on your altar
and watch for fire to descend.

Psalm 5:3, The Message

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