Life's Lessons Thursdays

i feel like i have been a really bad steward of my time lately. i can tell you a million excuses as to why.{this week it was watching every episode of Downton Abbey} but what i have come to realize is that if it takes work i don't want to do it. 

lame. i know. 

the 365 days of his word challenge is near and dear to my heart. i wasn't a good steward of that either, but it's time for a change. 

i really want to make the time and put forth the effort in my life each day to live in the word of God

 i feel so much better when i do. facing the day with my armor is so much easier than not.

somehow even the gravest of situations seem manageable when actively spending time with the Lord.

i found some really cool quotes about reading the bible 

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed. 

~Thomas Paine

When you read God's word, you must constantly be saying to yourself. "It is talking to me, and about me."

~Soren Kierkegaard

Bible reading is an education in itself.

~Lord Tennyson

Reading the Bible without meditating on it 

is like trying to eat without swallowing. 

~Anonymous

all of these and the bible itself {of course} 

got something stirring inside of me.

so, here is the deal.

on the first and third thursday of each month 

i am going to host a link up called 

lessons in life: what i learned from the bible.

the idea is for everyone to write a post about 
1} what you read in the bible recently.
2} how it spoke to you.
3} how you applied it in your own life.
4} what you learned form it.

easy enough right?

it's on two times a month. 
the first link up will be on March 1st.

i do hope you'll join me.

Never place a period 

where God has placed a comma.

 God is still speaking. 

~Gracie Allen

*side note* you do not have to be signed up for challenge 365 to participate.