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Lent 2020

As the Lenten season approached, I knew I had to face off with what we were going to give up this year as a family. Let me preface this post with this: I have thoroughly been enjoying movies each night as I nursed Levi. It was something I looked forward to & I was getting to the place where I couldn’t imagine life in the nursing a newborn season without those movies. 

One night, as I sat on the bed nursing the baby, I told the Lord that I really didn’t want to give up T.V., video games, or movies this year. I enjoyed playing Candy crush & watching movies to take my mind off of how tired I was. I asked God to give me the desire to give it all up. I needed a miracle! Sometime in the next 24 hours I was watching my kids on their devices & watching T.V. and I realized that it was time to regain our focus. To give it up again for the sake of putting it in its rightful place.

The Lord actually gave me a longing to give it up, maybe even an excitement for what He would be able to do in our family if we are not focused on T.V./media. 

Ash Wednesday night I was sitting in Bible study & asked the Lord what I should replace my TV & game time with. I had gotten to where I was watching a lot of movies & playing video games because of nursing the baby. I started thinking about all of the books I should read that are in the shelves in our basement. Parenting books, prayer books, theology books. While all of those would be beneficial I clearly got the sense that they are not the best for me right now. I felt God saying, “It’s all in my Word. Everything you need to know, ask of the answers you need right now.”  My goal during Lent is to read through the Bible in 40 days. I need to be bathed in the Word of God. This is the time to do it!

Run With Sparkle,
Heather
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