This is going to be a stressful week, actually a stressful month.  Please if anyone is out there reading this, please pray for our family this week.  I previously posted that my husband and I have been praying about a decision.  Well, the decision has been made and confirmed in our hearts.  Everyone else will find out what that decision is Wednesday night at our monthly conference. 

God has been preparing our hearts for this for a while and I feel peace with this decision.

I've been reading more in my Mary and Martha book.  I wanted to share this excerpt from the book:
Chapter 7, The Better Part

The author, Joanna Weaver is talking about her 30-something birthday.  She received a card from a friend and on the front of the card is a picture of a woman in the 1950s with about 8 or 9 hoola hoops swinging around her waist.  She compared herself to the woman in the picture.  The hoola hoops representing everything she was juggling in her life.

     "Then it dawned on me - I saw her secret. "She found a rhythm," I whispered to myself. "She established her center, then let everything move around that."
     That's exactly what I wasn't doing in my life.  All the things I'd been trying to accomplish were important, but I had lost my center. Busy being busy, I'd forgotten to tend to my inner self, the spiritual me. Like a wheel without an axle, I'd careened through life, bouncing off one duty and onto another.
     If there was an adequate pause, I'd spend some time with the Lord. But lately, more often that not, my busy days had slipped by without a quiet time. And my life was revealing what my spirit had missed.
     "Teach me Lord.  Show me the rhythm of life," I found myself praying.
     "Be my center."

Wow! That is where I am now!  That needs to be my motto.  "Teach me Lord, be my center!"