meditate on these things~

It's Wednesday. Izzy has school this afternoon which is just therapy for Summer... Gives me two hours of sheer freedom! :o)...
I made a new schedule yesterday. This was prompted by a phone call from my IRL friend Julie. Julie is queen of charts, schedules, and planning. She is an all or nothing kind of girl and with 7 children now, it's usually all. We were talking about just keeping things done so we exchanged schedules for our weekly things. She's a bit more 'gung ho' than I am, but at least I have a plan, or a method to my madness. I just looked at my 'schedule' and today is dusting and vacuuming. Yesterday was kitchen day which includes cleaning out fridge and extra cooking... (I made matt's taquitos, beans and then chili later for another day and prepared the meatloaf for today ... my menu is all scatterwonked). Monday was bedding day... check!
I'm also spending more time in Bible study, and reading different devotionals etc. I'm trying to fill my mind and heart with good things. I was convicted this weekend to stop tivo-ing a show that I have watched since junior high. This show was m-f everyday, it was a silly show, but one that I just always watched... if only for a few minutes while ff the annoying stuff. Well, those days are over. I realized how much was unholy in that show, everyone was married to each other's spouses and having other people's babies and other things that are just not part of my life. I was talking to Matt yesterday. He was talking about feeling so pumped up after leaving Dallas and how an email from a friend had messed with him a bit. Not really reduced his faith, just messed with him. I said, "It's like we come home as a big tall glass of pure clear water and all the bits of the world are like tiny droplets of blue dye, changing the water from it's clear pure state, little by little." Well, he appreciated my analogy and ask that I write it down for posterity... so I have. I refuse to allow my water to darken. I want to walk pure and holy before the Lord. I cannot expect Him to move and work in my life if I do not seek Him with my whole heart. Kat wrote a post yesterday about the worldliness of certain things and I applaud her post. It is so true and we (as a society) are so numb to sin that we don't think it matters or hurts anything to repeatedly see it. Even those shows that bleep out the bad words, tell me your mind doesn't know and speak what those bleeps don't. You hear over the bleeps just like you can read a word with only the first and last letters and the middle scrambled and your mind knows the word. Our hearts take in all of that negative sinful material and I just don't have any interest in polluting my mind or my heart.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. Philippians 4:8-9