So it's been a while...

So, it's been a while...

It's weird for me to take up writing on a blog that I hardly wrote on before. It feels awkward and odd for some reason.
But I feel like it's the thing to do.
My main reason or goal for doing it is to be able to look back later. I love being able to see what I was thinking in the past. And for me, a place on the interwebs that I can't physically misplace is perfect.

I'm not really feeling like an eloquent intro is required today so.. Let's just get right into this.

To celebrate New Year's eve, my husband and I had four friends over. They are two married couples that we know from church/high school and we're all about the same age. *Interjection: It's great having friends that are at a similar stage in life. People to share the journey with that have some idea what you're talking about, because it's happening to them now, too!* Anyway, while they were here, my brilliant husband gifted each couple, including us, with a devotional book. They were all the same and had a devotion for each day of the year. Jonathan's idea with the book was that we could enjoy/get into the habit of doing devotions together as couples as well as being able to share them together as a group from afar, since they were all the same. I was delightfully surprised with this idea! And I am very hopeful that it continues throughout this year, as well as many others.

Of course, we read the first one as a group before parting our separate ways this. The devotion was short and sweet... yet it still has me thinking. Here are the thoughts it raised for me:
* Can you imagine being one of the people that saw Jesus die and actually come back to LIFE? If that happened today, it would be written off as a hoax or a rumor... something impossible.
It would be SO hard to believe, if you didn't see it yourself. And in today's world, we would create some sort of theory or story in our minds in order to believe it.We might say something like, "well, he wasn't really dead in the first place.. it's just some crazy way of appearing dead but not actually being dead."
But the people that saw Jesus die and rise again didn't really have the "excuses/theories/stories/ideas" we have today. They saw, they believed. And some even died for sharing the news that he lived.

*I need to think about each day as if He is coming back again soon! I am very guilty of living each day with really no thought of when Jesus might return. And when I do think about it, half the time I have skeptical thoughts that I will ever be around when that day happens. My brain says, "well, it's been this long and it hasn't happened yet.. probably won't be in my lifetime." Why do I have thoughts like that? No idea. But I hope to maybe change that way of thinking! :)

Let Christ's resurrection define your life.
Happy New Year!