Meditation...any is better than none

Meditation should allow you to have a deep communion or communication with God, it should allow you to relax and get a better handle on the issues of the day. For these reasons alone, everyone should be meditating right?  Well I am not and I am a prime example of someone who needs to be meditating.  The problem is, I barely shower without a baby audience these days, so how in the world can a busy, full time working mom and wife take time to meditate? 

I have been looking into this for awhile because I really want to start meditating regularly.  Right now all of my responsibilites and duties are starting to mesh together and I don't know if I am coming or going.  To be the best wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, niece, cousin, employee that I can be....I have to take care of me.  Taking care of self is such a hard concept to grasp when you have so much going on.

I have tried meditation in the past, I usually can't get too deep into because I am thinking things like....my eyes are closed, what if a bug is in the room, I wonder what my son is doing, what am I going to make for dinner, do I need to go to the store today, wow my knee just popped pretty loud.  It takes 10 minutes alone for me to empty that stuff out of my head, and then I get in my own head and think things like...this is silly, I wonder if my husband is outside the door laughing at me. 


 I met with my pastor today and she suggested before having my time with God to just write down all the stuff in my head...that's an awesome idea!I just need to have a pretty nice size piece of paper.  After I write out my thoughts, I am going to take the following steps:

Ask for the Holy Spirit to help me with the peace that I need to relax and commune with God

Don't make it a project.  If I only have 5-10, that is better than the big fat 0 that I am doing right now

Start with a mantra (said quietly in my head) to set the mood...In the past what has worked for me is saying "Let Jesus in, more of Him and Less of me"

Breathe in through my mouth and out through my nose 


Candles and a cd seem to help...but they are not essential.  I find that I get obsessed about things like that, trust me, you don't have to have them!   

My goal is just to take it one day at a time.

Have you ever noticed, the more content you are the less you complain, the less you criticize and judge yourself and others? Contentment is what you end up with, when you erase all of the negative, its not just an emotion or mood...it's kind of a lifestyle when you think about it.  It's being okay with trials because you have faith enough that God is working all things to your good.  Every single day, you make a choice whether to complain or spread positive, judge or uplift.  I have gotta start making the right choices...it's time to find my own peace, I don't think it's just going to help me, I am pretty sure those around me would benefit :-)

I'll let you know how it goes!