The New Engine

So today I was coloring with my niece Anastasha who is 4 and she was in she was in a hurry to finish her picture before me. I was taking my time and outlining and making everything perfect and she had completed 4 pages before I had even done one. As we were coloring I asked her why she didn't want to color a particular page and she told me "because Aunt Shelly it will take too much time and I just want to hurry up and do as many pages as I can." Later on as I started to think about this I realized that we are all in this huge race and we just want to see how much we can do. We don't worry about the quality of our life, our relationships with people and most importantly our relationship with God. I have been forced to slow down in life and am realizing more and more that even in the moments that I have I can waste so much time doing absolutely nothing. People that have known me for any amount of time have never seen me as a "Godly Person". I would venture to say that if you would ask them they would say that I am a good person that would help others out, and that I go the extra mile. That just doesn't sit well with me anymore. I want people to know God. I want them to experience him! I want them to feel the Holy Spirit like never before. I want them to know that even in the good times it is good to have a relationship with God. I just want people to see Jesus in me and find him. Life is too hard to go through without him. He remade my engine and made me new and everyday is perfecting me into the person that he wants me to be. And I will continue to sing It is Well With My Soul. So whatever you are going through in your life know that God can bring you through it and you are not alone.