Hey peoples!

I am having an incredibly chaotic month, so far. (well, I guess that can't be too surprising, given the title of this blog!)

I am writing a book this month! Yay! :D
My goal is to write four pages, and around one thousand words a day. (can't be too hard right?)
WRONG!!!!
I started the month, feeling pretty good, we were not busy like we normally were, and then BOOM! reality sets in!

So, first, our CO-OP (For those of you who don't know what that is, it's kind of like a school, only for homeschoolers, and you only go every one or two weeks.) had a geography fair, and our family decided to do Missouri.
So we forget about it until two days before the fair, so we spend all day for two days working on the display (which actually turned out great), and somehow, I got all four pages done both days! I have no Idea how, except that I was extremely blessed!

And then guess what happens?

I get sick.

I mean, it was only a cold, but colds are not good when you are trying to write a book!
So I don't get all my pages done.
I'm mostly better, but I still have a lot to catch up on!

So, yea. that's where I'm at right now, about as busy as I have ever been in my life! 

I have also learned an important lesson, this month.
See, I love to have things to work on, and if I don't, well, then I just walk around the house all day, feeling bored.
I don't think it's bad to have things to work on, but it becomes a problem when those projects start to be the center of your life, and you spend less time on the things that really matter, such as reading the bible and praying, which is kind of what has happened to me the last few days.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that you can only have a certain amount of projects before you start spending less time with God, you can have as many projects as you want!
But they CANNOT be more important than God.

One of the ten commandments is: You shall have no other god before me.
Anything can be an idol. It can be money, toys, or projects.
So, if you spend more time with your projects, or your video games, and really anything else, that becomes a very large problem.

God loves us so much! I mean, first, he makes us, and I'm pretty grateful for that! Second, he sends his son to suffer the most painful, humiliating death imaginable, just so that we could be with him.
Can you even imagine sending your only son in the whole world to die like that?
That's not even counting all the countless blessings he has given us!

God loves us SO much! I know I have said that already, but it's the truth!
And I'm sure that he wants us to come to him, and love him, but how much can we do that, if we have other things in our life, that we put before God?
So, picture this. you have a son. You name him, you buy expensive clothes for him, you give him everything that you can, and he loves you very much!
And then, he finds this super cool video game, and he plays it all day, every day. He might come out once or twice, but he always goes back to the game.
Wouldn't you want him back? I mean, you gave him everything, but he just ignores you.
I, for one would not like that!

And that probably is not the best illustration, but you know what I'm saying.

God needs to be the center of our lives.
Now, that does not mean we have to spend the rest of our lives doing nothing but sitting in our rooms reading the bible and praying, But it does mean that we can't let ANYTHING be more important than god, because when we are away from God, then Satan comes.
And if you don't have God, then it becomes a whole lot harder to resist temptation.

God does not force us to come to him. He gives us a choice.
And we can either choose to follow the God who created everything in the universe, and who loves us more than anything, or we can choose to follow something that only gives us what seems like happiness for a while, but will get boring, it will break, and it will be gone when Jesus comes again.

Well, that's all I have to say, so I'll stop talking.

So long! - Noah