Contentment with the now

We've been talking about comparison and hopelessness at church and small group lately and I started thinking about how it relates to my life. Honestly there are not many things I want... I have a great marriage, a job I love, good friends... but there are so many times that Justin and I find ourselves just going through life until (insert life's milestone here) happens. It's so hard to even realize we're doing it, but we find ourselves making plans... after we finish the house, after he finishes school, after whatever we'll do this or that. God calls us to live each day for him and (in our case) we seem to put his plans on hold until we get our lives together. Hopefully we can stop "getting it together" and just go!

Love, hypocrites, and a "professional Christian"

Since my blog looked pretty empty I decided to post something I wrote on another blog awhile back:

I served as a youth intern at a church in Little Rock and I had the priviledge to lead small groups of junior and senior girls. One night we got to talking about loving others. It's so much easier to love and accept people as they are when they aren't held to the standards of being a Christian. It's so much harder to love those people who claim to have the love of Christ, yet continue to hurt us, to judge us, to live lives of hypocricy. I challenged them with a question... how do we love the hypocrites? After a week we came back to discuss... and there really is no right answer. I feel like such a hypocrite sometimes... here I am a leader, a "professional Christian" and I still fall, I think and do things I shouldn't and I let my girls into my life... they know my imperfections and they love me anyways. They had been doing it all along without even knowing it...loving this hypocrite for all that she was.