excuses, excuses

So here is a short list of the excuses I have been making lately, and then what I have decided to do about them....

1.  I can't start my running program because I don't have a treadmill, and I WANT one...

2.  I can't really eat healthy because I am not exercising like I should be in the first place...

3.  I can't really enjoy teaching home-school because I don't have a bought curriculum that tells me how to do everything....

This past Sunday I went to Refiners Fire Ministries church and honestly can't recall everything the pastor said or even what scripture he uses.  I think it was somewhere in Luke or Acts.  He basically talked about doing your best and giving your all.  That's all Christ wants from us anyways, He doesn't want us to be perfect, he wants us to be obedient.  Being obedient involves doing what we are told to do wholeheartedly.  To obey is better than the sacrifice we will have to make if we don't obey and give him our all.  

So my solutions are this, short and sweet.   I will start running because God has so graciously given us this land of about 300 acres to live on.  I am currently trying to do my best with my diet because I know that it is the right and healthy thing to do.  After all, we are supposed to eat to live not live to eat.  The last of my struggles, well in the area of excuses anyways, is the homeschooling issue.  It has been a constant struggle for me but since I so adamantly do not want my children in public schools, I have to give it my all.  I just have to do it.  No, I am not at the point where I can buy an expensive curriculum but I have been SO blessed by so many people with textbooks, workbooks, and so many other resources.  I will do what I know I am supposed to do, because I have spent time in the word and in prayer.   I know that there will be days when all of that goes out the window, but it is my daily goal to do my best at everything I was meant to do.  I am going to give Christ my all.