Detox

The holidays are winding down, and while I've enjoyed them (as usual), I'm REALLY looking forward to getting back into our "normal" routine. The last five weeks have been JAM PACKED for us with birthdays, parties, family time, and lots of yummy (if not terribly healthy) food. I've been telling Shorty for the past few days that I'm ready for a "detox". Not just a food type detox, (Although more vegetables and less sugar are DEFINITELY on the menu!) but also a detox from the holiday "gimme's". You know, when we open our first gift, we're super excited, but as the opened stack grows, our thankfulness can dwindle. And the same is true for our children. Add to that the extra free time and coolish (for Texas) weather, and you end up with too many video games and movies... and a grumpy family. I think the reason that this particular problem plagues us is because we were made for More. But because sin has so corrupted every part of who we are, we need regular cleansing from our God through Jesus Christ. And we get that through prayer, time spent reading and meditating on God's Word, and gathering with the church for worship. Detox for our souls! =)

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Psalms 51:1-12
 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
John 13:1-5