It's not that I think I need this challenge to write because I don't. God is stirring my heart towards writing again (thank you, Jesus). No, I simply think this would be a fun way to help me establish the habit of writing daily. Good habits can really help us move through our day more efficiently and free up our minds to think about more important things (like our current WIPs).

 I'm a wife to an amazing man, a mother of six, I've made the commitment to home educate my children, I have several pets to give attention to, a home to take care of, laundry mountains to decimate, writing to work on and so many other things vying for my time. All of the things needing my attention cannot be handled by being a SOTPster (SOTP = seat of the pants) in life.

God is a God of order. Let’s look at Creation for example.  Can you imagine what would have happened if he’d made the animals before the plants? “Sorry guys, I have nothing for you to eat yet. Let me get to that.” Or even better, what if he’d made man before he moved the water aside for the dry land to appear? “Yo, Adam, mind treading water for a bit?”

No, God created the world and everything in it, in the precise order it needed to go. He is not the God of mistakes! (I’ll remind myself of that when I feel Him asking little imperfect me to do something I think He’s crazy to ask me to do.) So, if God felt a need to have order in His world, how much more do I need order in mine?

He created me to be an easy going, go with the flow type of person. Does this mean I must stifle my personality to bring order about? I’ve come to realize the answer to that is no. Phew – what a relief that is! Rather, he wants to teach me how to bring about enough order for me to function well yet still allow for my spur of the moment style.

God is so awesome and so able to show each of us how to be ourselves living fully for Him in our own unique way. I’m prayerfully asking Him to hold His priorities for me firmly in my mind and for Him to show me how to order my life in just the right way for me to be productive.

This brings me back to the writing challenge. I’m going to have fun with it while I develop the habit of writing daily and I look forward to the days when I far out write a mere 100 words for that day.

 I’m off to see what other habits I need to develop and how best I can remind myself to do the action until it is done without thinking about it first.