The Month in Review

So, January was a month of doing a little bit of everything.  I might have accomplished more if I had focused on one or two things, but oh well.  Instead…

There was some crafting for Sunday School lessons and VBS.  

Sometimes my crafts actually turn out the way I imagined them in my head, and I just love it when that happens! The one above may be one of my all-time favorites.

I also worked on my next Bible Study Guide a little, which is on Ephesians.  Working on it started out a little rough.  The flow just wasn’t there like I wanted it to be, but I’m starting to get excited about it.  So, hopefully, it will continue to progress.

I started my next 30-Day Devotional study “From the Writings of Paul” what feels like forever ago.  Unfortunately, devos has been listed on my weekly to-do list every week since then, but week after week, I haven’t checked it off.  So, it was nice to get back into it again and write a few devotionals this month.  I’m still nowhere close to releasing it, but I’m closer.

You know it’s been awhile since you recorded a podcast episode when the software has completely changed and you have to basically relearn everything.  The episode “When the Journey is Filled with Waiting” published this month was not all that long, but it felt like it took forever.  The English major in me enjoyed the fact that it was inspired largely by a Longfellow poem, but I tried not to be too much of a lit nerd in the episode.  If you missed it, the link is shared on my For the Journey Facebook page, so you can go back and give it a listen if you’d like.

I guess I was a bit of a slacker on short devotional posts for the Facebook page this month.  I only wrote one, but it was a tremendous blessing to me.  If you missed “Keep Turning to the Cross,” go back and check it out.

Most of the Sunday School lessons I wrote this month were adult lessons from Jesus’ parables.  I have really enjoyed writing them and am sort of sad to almost have the study wrapped up, but it’s a good thing because I have to finish it in time for orders next month.

January was also the second month of honoring 10 years of For the Journey.  The Monday morning verses were taken from key verses for adult Sunday School lessons from Psalms.  I do think I succeeded in making the trivia question a little bit easier this month.  And, I highlighted my second 30-Day Devotional “Standing Strong” on the website.  You can keep scrolling after reading this month’s review if you missed it.

That pretty much sums up January.  It was an a-little-of-this-and-a-little-of-that kind of month, and while that seemed to mean less noticeable progress, I had fun doing all the things.