establish daily quiet time with God

Dear God, what I read in The Shack about how You want to be the center of my life really spoke to me. I want to make You the center. I want to share everything with You, every moment of my life, not just quiet time with You.
Thank You for yesterday. Thank you that we got so much done with the garage. Thank you for sending people to pick up the free junk. Thank you for the friends and fun we were able to enjoy and the beautiful weather. Thank you for the safety for all. You were at the center yesterday, even if some could not see it. Please be my center today. Help me to know your presence and to look for You all around me.
I love you.

So, I was thinking this afternoon about how I feel like my whole life is a mess right now; not doing well in business, house is cluttered (still), am broke, not feeling the waves of passion with hubby, etc. I thought, if I can just get one thing in my life on track, then maybe everything else will follow. Then I thought about my goal to have daily quiet time and how I haven’t worked on it at all. A thought popped into my head… that’s what you are supposed to get on track and then the verse, “seek ye first the kingdom of God and all His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you”.
So I thought about that for awhile, like what does seek ye first mean? Does that mean first thing in the morning? Then I thought about how putting something first is just another way of saying that it is a top priority. SO I thought about my priorities: what are the things I do everyday that I feel like I absolutely MUST do. The first thing that came to mind was have my coffee!! Not only do I enjoy it, I know that if I don’t have it my addicted self will suffer from a headache. So is that to say that I really have made having coffee a priority over having a quiet time with God?! Looks like I have.
So, this week I am going to try something. I am going to make having coffee synonymous with quiet time. I should get up 1/2 hour earlier so I can enjoy a cup of coffee while enjoying God’s presence. I can do this!
I’ll keep you posted.

I want to become passionate about prayer. It occurs to me over and over that I should pray about this or that. I whisper one and two sentence prayers, but as far as setting aside time to pray… well, it’s something that I currently don’t do. Something I really want and need to do.
It occurred to me last night that to follow Christ I need to make sacrifices. I don’t feel like I have made very many. One thing that is near and dear to me is SLEEP. I tend to be a morning person, but if I don’t get my zzzz’s…. it’s next to impossible for me to get out of bed.
I think God is calling me to sacrifice sleep to spend time with Him. Trouble is, I don’t really want to. Having admitted that…. let me just say that I think I am on my way to conquering it.