Made in His Image

I've been feeling really great the past couple of weeks! I think it is a combination of lots of things. Eating better (more veggies, fruit, fiber, water), exercising a lot more, keeping up with my daily reading plan, catching up with old friends, keeping myself on a schedule, blah blah.... Anyways, I'm learning that I thrive on a schedule. I think everyone does, but man i REALLY NEED a schedule to function well at all. I have been thinking a lot about how God is very orderly Himself. He knows when everything is going to happen; He makes timelines for billions of people all over the world. He definitely knows what He's doing, when He's doing it for billions of people. My soul longs to bring order to the chaos ...to make sense of things, to gracefully navigate through my day with intentionality in my actions and words. I want to have it all together. I use to think it was wrong of me to desire that. I don't know why..but the more orderly I am, the more I see God working in my life, using me, teaching me, and guiding me along. I guess it's arrogant to think I can keep everything together on my own. It is God who holds my life together and sustains me. BUT he needs my cooperation! He needs for me to be on my toes. there are so many things that ARE out of my control, but I don't think that means I should allow my life to be out of control to recognize that God sustains me.

God says in Genesis 1, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

God is a careful and dilegent manager, and wants for me to be this way in the work He gives me to do. My longing for things to be orderly and organized doesn't come from my Type A personality, but from a God who invites me to imitate Him in all things while I'm on earth. Realizing this has given me so much freedom and helped me to thrive where God has placed me inthis season. So many of these truths have become twisted in my mind.

I guess I've been contemplating these lifestyle issues, i guess you could call them, because I am going to be joining/creating a new lifestyle with another person soon. I've been thinking about what kind of home I want to create with Tom. trying to weigh the improtance of things like cleaning, cooking, organizing, etc. How important will maintaining those things be to us? what kind of schedule will we have? What kind of environment do I want him to come home to everyday? Will our children one day thrive in that environment once we've made a habit of doing things a "certain way" and being unable to break out of them. I love thinking about these things. I feel honored that God is giving me more things to manage in my life. I guess being a Human Development and Family Science major helps me to think of these lifestyle choices in a more systematic way.

Images like the one above make me one happy girl.Props to Container Store:) Have a beautiful, orderly day.