God is faithful to reveal where I fall short and struggle

The past three mornings, I have heard BIRDS chirping outside my window! Very faint, and it doesn't last long, but I hear them!!!

Or, it's my delusional state, having been submersed in snow for so long.

So the getting-up-early thing isn't working out so hot. Maybe it's because I'm staying up too late the night prior and not ready to get up yet. But either way, it's not working. I need more discipline. Rrrr.

My leader's group on Monday prayer walked around Cornerstone Church, praying for our leaders and those serving and those being served. It was so awesome! We probably could walk that church all night long, beseeching God for several different things, and never run out of things to say or thank God for or ask for. I really love prayer walking, and I would love to do it more frequently; it's a shame my self-conscious nature prevents me from doing so, as I'd probably look like a fool, talking to myself. In China, it was no big because no one knew what I was saying anyway. :)

March is (supposedly) craft month! I'm excited because I spent about 2 hours (umm....probably shouldn't have) on instructables.com picking out different projects that I'd like to do. Here's to being more creative!

Today, LisaGrace gave me a series of books that I've already delved into and adored from the beginning! I'm already halfway through the first book (granted, today was a VERY slow day at work), and there's three in the series, which is called The Mark of the Lion by Francine Rivers. It is SOOOO good! I forgot how much I love Christian fiction! I get so lost in the stories! They're incredibly historically accurate too, which is really neat!

It got me thinking today though; I get so wrapped up in Christian fiction that everything around me fades away and I'm oblivious to what is happening around me. The stories pull me in and I enter the character's world and feel what they're feeling.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this, but why don't I feel the same draw to the Bible, where I want to read it and get so lost in the story that my name needs to be repeated several times to pull me out of my trance? Why don't I feel the Biblical character's pains and struggles and victories as well as I feel Hadassah's in Voice in the Wind? What difference in value do I place on the two books that leaves this great chasm? And what do I need to do to be changing in my life to make my value system and priorities line up more appropriately with Christ's?