Routine

We are back to our routine after 11 days with family. It was so great to be with everyone, and my in-laws are such easy house guests, but it is nice to get back into routine, too. I have a hard time cleaning when someone is visiting because I want to hang out, and because there is so much happy chaos that my need to organize shuts down or something--except in the kitchen. That always must be cleaned or I go a little batty. Don't get the idea that I actually have a really clean house. I think it has more to do with dominion over clutter.

I am also feeling pensive after a good discussion with Steve about the Holy Spirit. I think the Holy Spirit is simply not someone you can conjure or manipulate, to quote my husband. And if we are reconciled to God, we are in his will. I think I appreciate the Hebrew idea of "walking" with God. It is not a life of skipping from one emotional high to another, then feeling like you are out of God's will for your life if you don't feel something. As if you can take Rosecrans instead of Imperial and be out of his will. His will is to be reconciled to him and to walk with him. This hardly does justice to what is on my heart, and clearly isn't the whole picture, nor does it express the questions I have still, but I can't see that it is a poor focus in life, just to seek to know God and to walk with him.