Feeling Overweight

Although many of my pants have become a bit tighter over the past few months, this isn’t what I am referring to.  Lately, I have been feeling a little bit overweight spiritually.  I feel as though my input far exceeds my output in my Christian life.  For example, being in seminary I have the great opportunity/ requirement to read a lot of books and learn a lot of new things.  On top of that, this semester I am in a preaching class where I get to listen and critique roughly 4 sermons a week (while also getting to preach once every couple of weeks.) Put that on top of the 5-6 sermons I listen to every week as I drive a delivery route, 1 sermon at church on Sunday, 1 small group video teaching per week – it equals out to about 12 sermons/Bible teachings per week that are being inputted into my life.  

I am not saying that this is bad, but sometimes I feel as though I am inputting so much truth and application into my head and heart, that it sometimes seems overwhelming and I’m afraid a lot of it gets lost in the mix and doesn’t get all the way from my head -> to my heart -> to my life.  I am more of a process thinker and I think I really need to prioritize my input so that I am able to process through it better and so that I am actually able to apply it in my daily life.  If the truth I am constantly hearing isn’t really changing the way I live my life, what’s the point – right?  

This is one reason why I believe that blogging will help me get back in good spiritual shape.  It doesn’t really matter if my mom is the only one who reads this:) – I just feel that taking time to type out my thoughts helps me process all of the input, therefore giving me a better chance of having some significant output in my life – and also some accountability, which is not a bad thing at all!  So I see blogging as almost like a spiritual exercise for me, as I process Biblical truth that I hear throughout each week in a written form.  

Next post, I’ll talk about another spiritual exercise that helps me trade some of my spiritual fat for some spiritual muscle.

Sooo … It’s been awhile.

Well, turns out I am not near as consistent at writing blogs as I am at reading them. One of the things I vowed not to do when I started this blog was to open it up and go weeks without updating it – and that is pretty much what I have done. I could make up lots of “reasonable” excuses like: “We’ve been getting ready to have a baby” or “I have some really hard classes that I need to study a lot for” or “My preaching class is kicking my butt” or “I am spending more time on facebook because it seems like everyone (including our grandmother!!) has joined” or … the list could go on and on and while all of these things are true, the bottom line is that people have time to do the things they feel are important to do. Since I feel that blogging is important for me to do for various reasons, I need to make time to blog on a more frequent basis than once a month.

So even though my life is about to change radically with a new baby and I am told that my schedule will be drastically altered during these next few months/years/forever – I am going to commit to get back to blogging. I feel like I need to – Why, you ask?? Well maybe that should be my next post …