Watching:

My word for 2015 is #elevate.  This is challenging me to look at all aspects of my life and what I can do to elevate my success.  One of those areas is Spiritual growth - for myself and for my family.  I've been guilty over the past 3 years of being complacent.  Complacent in my own relationship with God and complacent in watching over the spiritual growth of my daughters.

Unless your kid has absolutely no contact with anyone, no access to media or the internet or newspaper they are susceptible to the influence of others.  Conversations and chatter that seems to be around us 24/7.  In the absence of knowledge and truth a vacuum appears and WILL be filled.  Is it Garbage or Good Stuff? Biblical Truth or Popular opinion?

1 Peter 5:8 says, "Be ALERT and of sober mind.  Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."

Nothing about that verse is passive!  Our enemy the devil is prowling around on a definitive seek and destroy mission and doesn't care that it is your child. "But I have a good kid, Kim.  She has her head screwed on straight and makes good decisions."  Absolutely!  And they have a target on their back too.

So...I've got some work to do.  There's an old song that says, "Well, I went to the Enemy's Camp and I took back what he stole from me."

Here's how:

1.  I cried out to God and confessed that I have not been "watchful" and asked for forgiveness.
2.  I went to both of my daughters and confessed that I have not been as watchful as I needed to be and again, asked for their forgivness.
3.  I dove head first into the WORD and asked for God to help me be more watchful.  What am I looking for?  Anything that God places on my heart.
4.  I have regular times with my daughters to take their spiritual temperature.  What are they doing to grow their own relationship with God and is there anything I can do to help.
5. Trust that God can and WILL restore the season I was asleep at the wheel.

Am I still struggling with being watchful.  Everyday.  I'm taking it a day at a time and choosing not to worry about the future.  In reality, I can't change the past; only my actions today that can shape tomorrow's decisions.