Procrastination and Persistence

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I have sooo many things that I enjoy doing and many things that I also endure doing. The many projects that I have going on can sometimes overwhelm me. Other times its the distraction that comes when I’m inspired by something seemingly unrelated. This presents a challenge. What I consider as urgency that I finish a project can also hinder my completion of another. Prioritizing and staying with one thing until its completion is reached is a major issue for me. So it appears that the procrastination ensues as I run into required technical solutions that I don’t want to tackle at the time. Switching to the left brain mode can cancel the flow of the right side in which I love to immerse myself.

As far as the persistence goes, I do have a coach to whom I’m accountable to. This blog is one of the things that I have tendency to pick up and lay down sporadically. It is something I would like to do more consistently. I would like to track my growth, share my thoughts and relate to this world of communicators. So, I persist on my journey, with the destination before me and the occasional detour along the way.

Apostolic Prayer

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Ephesians 3:14

I would like to invite those of the Ecclesia to join me in agreement with the Apostle Paul’s prayer for the Church (Eph 3:14). I believe that the prayer he prayed those many years ago was answered in the affirmative when he first petitioned. It is now up to us to apprehend what we’ve been given.

Not unlike the children of Israel, who were given the promised land; we, as they did, must conquer the inhabitants of the land to possess it. In other words, we know on the front end what we’ve been given, though we fight to subdue our inheritance.

We, as believers, stand in this tension amid the paradox of the “now and not yet”. We know for a surety what we’ve been given yet the fullness of the revelation and experience is yet to come.

On the premise of what has already been prayed by the Apostle Paul, we thank God for granting us strength fueled by the power of His Spirit in the inner man. We praise our Lord Jesus the Christ for dwelling in our heart through faith. We thank you God that we have our foundation in love and can grasp the concepts of its multi-dimensions together with all the saints.

Thank you, Father for enabling us to know the love of Christ that surpasses human intellect and mental comprehension so that we may be filled with all the fullness of God. And we give glory to you, our dear heavenly Father, who is able to do all this and much more than we can ask or think, according to the (His) power that works in us. May glory and honor be ascribed to him by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever.

As the representatives of Jesus the Christ, let it be so.

A little something to chew on. Is it digestible? Can we cut this into bite size portions so that we can extract all of the nutrients?

Hello world!

Posted on by Teresa

I’ll just do a brief intro here. My given name is Teresa and I’m affectionately called “Terri”. How I ended up here is another attempt for me to keep up with my life’s journey. I’m sure you caught that ‘another’, which indicates there have been other such endeavors that fizzled out upon the tide of distractions or disinterest. One thing I can say about myself is that I don’t give up. I will start over again, though maintaining and finishing certainly have been more than the notion that moved me in the first place.

I call myself rising senior not because I’m embarking upon my last year in high school or college, but because I’m 60+  and still figuring out what I want to be in this life of mine.  It’s not that I’m hopelessly lost or indecisive even if at times these qualifiers seemed more apt to describe my behavior. I am one who loves my life and want to express that love in its multifaceted dimensions.

Being the creative that I am, I love crafts, to a fault my husband would say. I believe I’ve hopped on nearly every craft trend bandwagon there is. I make soaps, jewelry, laser prints, bling tumblers, and do handlettering, just to name a few. You can imagine what my house looks like. Fortunately, I got organized when my grandson (mostly my grandson) and I built a knock off storage cabinet. It actually turned out pretty good. After organizing I decided to take a break from just about everything to assess what my next move would be.

( I can hardly believe that it’s been almost 10 years since I started writing this, go figure) It still applies, so it’s relevant.

I need some comraderie here; Is there anyone else like me out there?