Priorities

I look at my schedule many times a day- I feel like I am lost without it, and really I just know I'm forgetful. If something is really important, I put it on my Google calendar and set up alerts. Long story short, I didn't put "lunch fasting and prayer" on my schedule, and every Friday for the last month, it hit me that I had missed it. It was only then that I even thought about children in foster care, our future in adoption and fostering, or really even praying. So today I put it on my calendar, not because it will be checked off my spiritual disciplines checklist or because it will put me in a greater standing with God. Rather, the Bible constantly reminds us that our strength is not by might or power, but the Spirit of God, and the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. So along with scheduling, I have started praying that I would be drawn more to prayer, so that eventually I would not have the schedule it- that I would just be drawn regularly to the One in whom I put my life, trust, love, and faith!