The call to write.

It is midnight.  What am I still doing up?  The usual answer would be that I have trouble sleeping, so I'm a night owl.  Well, tonight this isn't the full answer.  I'm up and writing because I'm feeling compelled to do so.  If you are reading this, I do not know, or assume to know, the status of your faith.  I do not know if you believe in God or his son, Jesus Christ.  What I can tell you is that over 8 years ago I came to know them both intimately and this truth alone has transformed my life.  Long story short, I used to be an athiest and now I am not. I used to be clinically depressed and now I am not.  Now I have hope.  I used to be so fearful and now I'm being bold and putting myself out there.  It will sound cliche for me to say that I am a changed person, but it's the truth.  Knowing Christ, trusting, and loving Him has transformed me from the inside out.  If you asked me a few days ago if I could see myself as a blogger, I would have adamently said, "NO WAY!"  Yet, here I sit typing away when the rest of the household is sound asleep.  I'm writing because - crazy as it sounds - I've felt the Holy Spirit urging me to do this the past couple of days.  And as usual, my response is, "Why? Why me? Why now?  I couldn't possibly!"  If I have learned anything over the past few years, I have learned that if I put my faith and trust in Him, He never steers me wrong.  The problem is that I don't always want to give up control of my life.  Yes, I'm a control freak.  But I have found that when I finally give up the reigns, God has used me in amazing and unexpected ways.  So here I am, not sure exactly why I'm being prompted to do this blog.  I prayed about it, and kept hearing, "Trust me!  Let go!  Trust me! Do it and see my glory unfold."  And so I signed up for an account and started typing. . . And I prayed some more about what the title of this blog should be.  I was playing around with Faith and Motherhood, Tales from the P- Household, and other not so creative names.  But then like a whisper, I heard, "Divine Intervention."  And I just had to smile.  Ok, I get it.  Yes, it was divine intervention that brought me to Christ to begin with.  It is divine intervention that I make it through each day with my sanity intact while navigating motherhood.  Seriously!  Those of you who are mothers know what I'm talking about.  Whether you are a SAHM or working mom, you know that it's an exhausting and challenging job -- thankfully it's also rewarding!  But Divine Intervention is so fitting because that's what this blog is about --  or will be about, I guess.  Afterall, if it were up to me alone I would not be doing this.  But a divine hand is urging and calling me to write about my spiritual journey and how I balance that with my everyday tasks of wife and mother.  So we'll see where this goes!
"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philillipians 4:13)."