Sometimes you gotta make it 1st grade

D-town and myself, we have a lot going on in life, just like everyone else.

We have so much we need to pray for, and sometimes things just slip our mind.

The Bible tells us that God gave everyone the tools and gifts we need, we just have to use them.

Devin and I want to use prayer more diligently.  Because how can we just sit around waiting for God to do something if we haven’t asked Him to do it?  Or show us?  Or answer us?  Or lead us?

How can I constantly say I would like a change in job, but not constantly ask for it?

The huz and I, we’re visual people.

So we busted out the watercolors (it’s completely normal for 20 something married people to have watercolors.), cut open a grocery sack, and painted some things we need to focus our prayer on.

For example, we sponsor 4 kids in India through Compassion International.  We send them money every month, but we haven’t prayed much for them.  They’re on the top left.  The house on the top right- we don’t know if we should buy or rent when our apartment lease is up because if we buy that means we’re staying but what if we go for new jobs that take us elsewhere…anyway, we know we will be moving out of our current place regardless, so we are praying for guidance and a safe place that is close-ish to work and church that won’t blow our entire savings.  And we’re also hoping to get into the Houston marathon, which is a lottery entry this year.  So that’s on there too.

We left some space to add things, and it hangs on the wall we face when we eat breakfast and dinner together every day.  So when we pray, we can peek and ask and be more consistent in our talking with God.

Sometimes you just have to make it as simple as you need it to be a la first grade.

He gets that