It is nice to be into March and it’s a beautiful morning as the sun is rising.  I have all my landscaping blocks here so I can start my “garden work”, yet I have much other work to do so I am in a quandary as to which way I should go.  I’ll probably just get the blocks started so I can at least touch the earth for a moment!

Walking as a new creation is going to take some time and learning for me.  I should know this but I have always had this fantasy mindset that once you know you can do it perfectly.  I’m as bad today as when I was a kid with being hit up along side my head when I fall flat on my face and realize, I didn’t do that so well.  This happened Monday with falling into the beggar mindset of the old me and it started to happen yesterday when I was working with the school district.  I’m realizing the habits of the old me need to be addressed as they pop up.  I struggle to realize I’m still a new creation even when I do have these old habits surface.  It is sure a great thing that our God is so gracious.  The fact that He always see Christ Jesus in me is reassuring that I’m making progress.  These times are growing me into a fuller awareness of my being a new creation–not stepping out of it back into the old.

I do love the fact that God is growing the spirit with me.  The ugliness of the old self is really visible from the lens of the new creation.  I want to be a good learner in this realm.