7. Confessions

I have not been keeping up with this blog. I often think of it and what to post next, but these posts are rarely realized when I sit down at the computer.

With several left to buy for (or for most, I need to buy something small in order to make their present) I'm dangerously close to the $100 limit I set for myself.

With the exception of clearing out my shorts/pants drawer and making a pile for donation, I haven't been following my goal of one thing a day either.

I'm no closer to realizing my K.A. goal.

I'm not particularly ready for Advent or Christmas.

However, "this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." (Philippians 3:13b)

I'm attempting grace. I'm attempting a fuller mentality of abundace. I'm making the time for family (We've spent every night this week with my grandpa with a scare in the hospital.)

Merciful God,
we confess that we have not love you with our whole heart.
We have failed to be an obedient church.
We have not done your will,
we have broken your law,
we have rebelled against your love,
we have not loved our neighbors,
and we have not heard the cry of the needy.
Forgive us, we pray.
Free us for joyful obedience,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
-UMH, p. 12, A Service of Word and Table II

But this one thing I do strive for. I try, and I don't stop at it either.

Grace & Peace!