Only One

I am only one,

But still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do everything,

I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

~Edward Everett Hale

    I am the person that thinks she can do everything. Slowly, painfully, I'm learning that I can't possibly do everything and still give my best. Y'all know I have a busy life, and I love it! But I'm trying to slow down and keep my priorities straight. It's time for some 'spring cleaning'! There's things I'm not doing that I know I need to do, and things that I'm doing that really are not necessary. I'm so glad I serve such an awesome God cause there's no way anything would happen without Him. We humans are so utterly hopeless on our own.

    Jesus gave up everything - His comfort zone, glory, power...beyond my imagination - to come to earth and live in human form. 100% God and 100% man is something I'll never completely understand, but isn't it incredible?! Why did He give up everything to come and suffer as a human for me? He came to die, so that I could live. I can't imagine making that kind of sacrifice. He bore the sins of the world, which in my imagination had to be much, much worse the the physical pain. All of us have sinned multiple times in our lives, and remember the guilt? Jesus had the guilt multiplied by all the sins ever commited - and His conscience was clean, not grown calloused and "used to sinning." His own Father turned His face! 

    Who am I to turn my head the other way?

    Do nothing with His ultimate gift?

    God doesn't need me, no way! I need Him! As somebody (I don't remember who) once said, "God did not love us because we were valuable - We are valuable because God loves us." Now that I've accepted His gift, am I just gonna go on my merry way, not really changed? How can I do that? I've got to do something more! Having a personal relationship with my Savior is wonderful beyond anything I've ever experienced, but it comes with a price tag. Am I willing to surrender my all? It's so easy to sing the words of that beautiful old hymn, "I Surrender All," but how many of us have really given up our lives to the Master? 

    I want to serve Him with everything I am. Oh, it's not going to be easy. Far from it, and I'm sure I don't even know the half. But I'm praying God will give me the strength and the wisdom to follow His will, wherever it may lead. 

    Who will join me?

P.S. What do y'all think of the new layout?