The Fox Family 4-1-1

As many of you know our landlord has been struggling through the foreclosure process. Well he finally lost and the house we are renting went back to the bank. This means that the Foxes will be moving. To where? We have no idea. We are thinking about getting out of the Queen Creek area and closer to more job opportunities for Chris. He has been without a job now for a year, but God is gracious and has provided for us in many many ways. Chris has had some odd jobs here and there, and I have been working part time. We are both in school;what an adventure and challenge this last year has been. I love how God chooses to run us through the ringer of purification. We know that God has a place for us, and are trusting him to reveal it to us at the proper time. We are thankful for all of this provisions and his love.

Matthew 6:25-34 NKJV

"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap not gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is , and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
"Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

Where do you find the time?

It seems these days that there are just not enough hours in My day to get it all done. I sit and read all these wonderful blogs from so many wonderful friends and family and I wonder.

Where do you guys find the time?

Maybe I am missing something.

Maybe I have a misconception of what your lives are truly like. Maybe you are blogging with a sink full of dishes and a love seat covered in unfolded laundry. Books, puzzles, and Legos are covering your family room floor too as you sit and take time for yourself and what is really important.

I am sure it is no surprise to most of you that I am a perfectionist. Oldest Child syndrome what can I say, not my fault I was born first, I'll just have to take that one up with the Man upstairs I suppose. My point in all of that was just this maybe I need to let go of perfect in my sense and grab on to a new perfect in God's sense.

After all what is perfect anyway?

From where I am sitting it is just an other reason for my continual failure; an unatainable standard and expectation of myself.

Oh, how I hate the feeling of needing worldly perfection.

Oh, how I long for allowing God to complete His perfection in me.