What Do I Do With This?

So I've been singing scripture this week thanks to a free sample CD of Seeds Family Worship.  It's been good and it is a great way for me to meditate on scripture because I learn through hearing mostly.  Plus, music is my vehicle... so I especially appreciate it.  I struggle to discipline myself to read the Word, but even then God finds a way for His awesome Goodness to find a small corner of my selfish heart to burrow down in.  This is the verse I've especially been thinking of this week:

"Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-14

Clothe myself.  I want my life to be like that.  If I'm not wearing patience it would be like going to Aldi without a shirt.  OK?  I want it to be like that.  I want to clothe myself with love... love for others... others that don't have and are lonely and hurting and need support.  Orphans, widows, stay at home moms, children, teens in my neighborhood, neighbors that don't know the Lord... all of those.  How to implement that is the question I have been asking the Lord.  "What do I do with this Lord?" has been my constant prayer in the past months... what do I do with this?  This restlessness to do something bigger, more stretching... more eternal.  Yes, I know motherhood is eternal and it is a daily concern of mine as well as the health of my marriage.

Then today I read this verse:  Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.” (Isaiah 1:13-17)


We have a new person living with us.  His name is Mike and he's 20 yrs old.  He is an entrepreneur and will live in a house Ben and I have purchased but haven't closed on.  It's a long story, but this guy is smart and very nice and an entrepreneur.  It seems we always have someone extra living inside our walls.  Please pray for Mike.  I'm not sure where he is with God, and I pray Ben and I have a chance to share our faith with him.