Lets face it, I am a tired mama.  I have four kids, I am a nurse who works night shift.  I sleep in approximately 4 hour increments.  I am tired.  I feel like I am on that perpetual hamster wheel….. you run and you run and you run.  You get some things accomplished but not necessarily all that you were hoping to.  Yesterday my intention was to fold all the laundry, my sweet Sassy decided that she needed a fort, she needed a blankie for her baby.  And Bug decided that he needed to snuggle.  So the laundry it is still waiting…. and waiting…. and waiting…..  My kids went back to school yesterday after Christmas break, and I thought that there might be that down time that I so desperately want.  Yeah right! There is always something right?  Oh gosh do I love these four.  I feel as though I don’t really want to put all their info out there… so my babies will be SS, Beautiful, Bug, and Sassy.

Todays scripture readings discuss walking with God.  Walking in close companionship, developing the type of relationship that allows constant contact/conversation with our Creator.

And then there is that thing called exercise.  And we all know that we should do it.  We all know how important it is.  We all know that it would make us feel so much better.  But why then is it so hard to get started?  What about walking?  What if we could plan to meet with our friend every day for 20 minutes and catch up?  Vent?  Share hopes and dreams with?  What if the plan was a 20 minute power walk with a dear friend?  God wants to be that dear friend.  He wants us to walk with Him in all of our daily life.  He wants us to share our hopes and dreams, fears and failures.  Noah “walked with God” and he communicated so deeply with Him.  “Walking with God”  is how we were intended to live.  (Micah 6:8) says that we should walk humbly with him.  We should be speaking with him like he is our best friend walking right along side us.  He wants to be the one to carry our burdens, rejoice in our triumphs, sustain us in our exhaustion.  Let’s aim to walk with Him daily, to keep Him close and to speak with Him as our constant companion.