LIVE SIMPLY

This is our story about the Live Simply Challenge. Actually, it's not our story, it's Gods story, we merely had the pleasure of being a part of it and get to tell it.

We accepted the Lords call to participate in the Live Simply Challenge for the week of July 19, 2009-July 25, 2009. Going into this challenge, my husband and I thought this would be simple. At the end of day three, we both learned that this challenge was becomming quite difficult. We seek God and spend time with him everyday, He is our rock, our foundation, our everything. Yet, we were still lacking a reliance on Him that only he knew about.

God called us to participate in this challenge to teach us to seek his face, presence, strength, courage, and wisdom. God called us to teach how to totally and completely rely upon him. WOW! What a lesson we learned. What a blessed encounter.

Sometime after lunch on Thursday our children had a friend over swimming. I stepped outside to check on them without them knowing. As I sat and listened to them, they began to discuss this challenge. Their friend said that what we were doing wasn't healthy for kids. Both Dakota and Macaliy began to explain in detail about the millions of people around the world that are doing without on a daily basis. I also heard my son recite scriptures about Jesus' 40 day fast as well as other scriptures about fasting and the different types of fasting. I also heard them ask their friend if she ever read her bible or went to church.

WOW! I am so thankful that God brought me outside at that time. I am so proud of them for taking a stand for what they believe in and the impact this challenge has had on them.