I love Sundays

Today was the first time EVER we have left Reagan alone with anyone other than family. The past couple of times we debated on whether to take into church service with us or take her to the nursery. At our new church, that we love, they have these parent viewing rooms. They are in the back of the church and are enclosed areas that sit about 30 people on each side. You still feel involved, you are just more at ease knowing that your surrounded by parents and kids.

So today we did it, we dropped her off in the infant room. And although I didn't feel too emotional about doing it, I balled when it came time. I don't really know why! I guess I just felt a ton of emotions hit me at once. At that moment, I knew throughout my journey as a mother, I would have to learn to let go. To loosen my rains and let her grow.

I few times throughout the service I found myself asking Darrin, "should I go check on her......have you gotten a page....wonder how she is doing." But she did just fine. When it was time to pick her up she was sitting in the lap of one of the women working in there and just a smiling and playing. Today was a special Mommy moment for me, I just love my little princess so much!

Since I didn't have Reagan in service with us, I was able to pay a little more attention to the message. I want to try to start blogging on Sundays about what I received from the message that day. Today the pastor said if you are doing the same thing every day and not every changing or growing, you aren't growing as a Christian. I love the feeling after church. You just heard a wonderful message, you are incorporating it into your life and wanting to spread the message to others you know. Here are a few points I found the most important from today.

• Joy and Peace are internal - Happiness and Calm are external
• You must free yourself from your past so you can be at peace
• Enemies of Joy and Peace: stress, noise, info overload, relationships, conflict
• Coping with Enemies or how we deal with the enemies: worry, control, consume (buying things) and procrastinate
• Filter the noise - if not you can't focus on the important relationships in your life. (God, others and self)
• Practice the principals - do something about it
• Connect to the source of joy and peace

Interest things into your life that bring joy and peace and you are still left empty. The shine wears off. Fill your life with ultimate joy and peace with the Lord and have everlasting joy and peace.

Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all that he has done. If you do this you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than wonderful than the human mind can understand.
Philippians 4