Saturday... Maybe we need to reboot.

I have been having some trouble the last two days at connecting to my Starbucks app so I've been going up and personally giving my order instead of online. Well I gave my personal order this morning and then set down and decided that I needed to reboot my phone and I did and it worked.

Maybe we sometimes need to just reboot. We get in a rut and things just don't work out. We feel like we are having trouble connecting with our family and even God and maybe all we need to do is reboot. We need to step out of our rut, our routine and do things a little different. Maybe we are taking our family and even God for granted.

David writes in Psalm 63:1, "O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water." Maybe he needed a reboot, a refocus. Maybe he needed a change of focus.

In verses 5 (MSG) he says, "I eat my fill of prime rib and gravy; I smack my lips. It's time to shout praises!" We can get in a rut of monotony. It's all about getting. Maybe we need to start focusing on giving.

Maybe Christmas is a time of refocus. We've been changing the way the inside and outside of our house looks. The joy of Christmas has taken over. We even have change the music we listen too and what we are buying. It is no longer getting just what we want and need but now getting what others want and need. We also are getting out of the house at night and seeing the changes that others have made to the outside of their houses. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I love it.

This is the season that we celebrate the greatest gift that has ever been given. Now that is a great way to reboot. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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