Annabelle says that Lisabeth is not a baby nor she is a kid: she’s a kiddeo. Daniel and I decided we like that better than “preschooler” nomenclature, so kiddeo she is. haha 🙂 I wish she could stay a kiddeo. I honestly love this phase Lisabeth is in now. With my third, though, I’d have to say, I’ve treasured the process more. {It helps that she is super sweet and easy! no joke!}
Annabelle said a few nights ago that her favorite animals were the following:
- an owl for the flying animals
- a whale for the swimming animals
- a dog for the normal animals
- a butterfly for the bug/insect animals
I noted in my mind that I wanted to write that down, so that’s what I am doing.
You may have noticed that I’ve been a little quiet lately. My heart has been a lot cluttered.
A cluttered heart is not a peaceful heart. <–Tweet this.
Mostly, I’ve been too many things and probably not the most important thing. Another way to say it is I thought I was doing the most important thing in too many ways. I was juggling too many balls and some were falling.
I’ve been studying Deuteronomy, and I’ve rested on the phrase, “written on your heart.” I just know that there is something I am supposed to learn from this. It started coming together in my mind as I wrote about my cluttered heart. A heart that has law or grace written on it should not be cluttered, right?
Too, the word “divided” came to mind. When I looked for a divided heart I couldn’t find it in the bible but knew it was there, so I did a broad search online, and found this message by C. H. Spurgeon. I used his verse to look in my bible and found that “divided” was translated “deceitful.” Yall, I do not want to be deceived by heart clutter. I want to follow after my God with my whole heart. I felt God leading me to look at “7” by Jen Hatmaker at the beginning of the year, but I didn’t listen, so I’m starting now. Reading “7” and studying Deuteronomy feels a bit cluttered, but I do feel like He’s leading me to do both, so we shall see…
I will be decluttering my heart and my home, and I believe these are my priorities for now. I will be tapering off other commitments, but I have plenty (and that’s the problem)! Because I know that writing is a passion of mine, I expect to write a series of posts on the cluttered heart as I learn and declutter. But again, I am reaching back to my commitment to be intentional, so at times, that may mean less writing.
Tell me: is your heart cluttered? What have you done to declutter it?
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You know what, Jamie? My heart IS cluttered (I like the way you put that) – and it’s something I’ve realized just in the last week or so as we have approached the start of Lent. I’ve lost my focus on God — my heart has been cluttered by “platform” and “audience building” and all that, and I’ve simply diluted the love in my life with all this other miscellaneous stuff. So thank you – you have clarified well for me what I’ve been thinking about these last few days.
Yes, I feel every bit of what you are talking about in this comment. It summarizes every thing I’ve felt and gives direction to what I need to “delete.” (Jon Acuff’s post today).