Calm My Anxious Heart Week 7 Part 1

Good morning ladies, I hope you all had a wonderful week.  I did and God is really showing me a lot about my faulty focus.  I am the type of person who stays busy, but without an actual purpose.  I am a list maker, but I never stick to it because I put so much on that list that it feels impossible to finish and then I run around aimlessly.  This week I am making it a goal to make realistic lists and to create a plan that is feasible.  I was praying and I asked God to guide me in a more peaceful direction on how I go about doing things.  As I was praying God asked me how are most businesses and churches ran. He showed me they start off with a mission statement, goals, and a plan.  I then created a mission statement for our family. It is not perfect and it is a work in progress.  I wrote it in present tense; because it is more positive that way, so don’t go thinking that we have accomplished all of this yet.  This is a guide for me and my family to stay on track on what God is showing us.

                                              Mace Family Mission

We have an active and loving relationship with God, which allows us to have a more abundant, and peaceful life while here on earth.  Joel and I have an amazing relationship.  We have a wonderful relationship with our children.  We have an active and healthy lifestyle.  We are debt free!  We have a peaceful home full of Joy and laughter.  We have a successful business and are able to keep up with its demands while instilling integrity to those around us.  Our things are really Gods things and we take care of them, as we should.  We know what we want out of life and Christ is at the front and center of it.  We are a fun, loving and Christ like family in which God is the potter and we are the clay.  Not our will Lord, but Your will.

A few years back I created a personal vision statement, I had lost it in all the paper clutter I have around here.  I was going through a drawer and I found it stuck to the back of a book. Gods timing is always perfect.

My personal vision statement is to use my encouraging and giving personality to lift up and inspire others to help one another, and use the gifts God has given each one of us to help the church and the world become a better place.

It is not perfect either, but it is a start to help me stay on track of what God has shown me to strive for and I am sure that these will change as time goes on, but this is my focus for now. 

Linda Dillow also asked about a personal scripture. Mine is Psalm 34:1-22 (yes the whole chapter. J )

I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; the humble shall hear of it and be glad.
Oh, magnify the LORD with me, And let us exalt His name together.   I sought the LORD, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.  They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out, and the LORD heard him,
And saved him out of all his troubles.  The angel^[a] of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him, And delivers them.
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!  Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints!  There is no want to those who fear Him.  The young lions lack and suffer hunger; but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
Come, you children, listen to me;  I will teach you the fear of the LORD.   Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.  Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.  The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,  And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But the LORD delivers him out of them all.
He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken.
Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.
The LORD redeems the soul of His servants, And none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.

Well that is all I have for today. I pray you all have a wonderful and blessed week.