Week 2 - Clothes

Wow, it is super hard to keep up with this during the summer with all four kids home! I might have to start combining some weeks, so I can take time to start adding blogs about our summer fun! My goal is to keep this one short and sweet...not a gift of mine but I'm going to try. :)

Well, I picked my 7 clothes:
workout tights (is that what you call the spandex-y capri things??)
a pair of shorts
a pair of jeans
a gray t-shirt
a gray nice shirt
3/4 sleeve blue shirt
shoes (1 pair of flip flops and my running shoes)

First off let me begin by saying it was really hard this week to figure out what my focus should be. So since I didn't start with any sort of focus or way to be intentional through out the week, I really just spent a good part of the week bugged at my limited clothing options. I don't feel like I made good shirt choices so I was bugged about that. Then what did I decide to add to my to-do list this week??? Well, painting of course! But did I put paint clothes on my list? NO, because how can you when you're only choosing 7 things! I really did not want to get paint on my workout pants because they're a nice brand (but I DID get paint on them) so I turned them inside out. Seriously, if my neighbor had come to the door they would have thought I was some crazy woman and then I would have had to explain why on earth I had my workout pants on inside out.

I was seriously (prepare to start saying ewwww) wearing my workout clothes to workout, then wearing them for a good part (or all) of the day, and then putting my, not washed, workout shirt back on to sleep in! But at least the sweat was dried by now, right?!? I went a good 5 days before I washed my workout clothes. You know it's bad when you go to the club and decide what exercise machine you're going to use based on not wanting to be near people in case you smell! Obviously none of my choices were good pajama options but I was trying to just stick to my seven choices. However, since it's getting warm, Mike likes to sleep with the window open and the shades up so you get more air flow. So, Davis wakes up crying and Mike goes to see what's wrong and of course turns the hallway light on, which lights up our room. Normally, I would leap out of bed to go help but laid there with a major dilemma on my hands...I was in my underwear and a t-shirt and if I leap out of bed since it's dark outside and light inside my neighbors might think I was a crazy woman running around in my underwear! So I stayed put! :) It was in that moment that I decided pj's did NOT count!

So I was re-reading the chapter on clothes on Wed. (the last day) to prepare some questions for the discussion that night. I was reading a part where the author is talking about Isaiah 58 and fasting and I realized I totally missed the boat the week! I spent the week annoyed about my clothing options, instead of intentionally asking God what he wanted me to learn this week as I fasted from the rest of my closet! To be honest I love clothes! I love looking nice and dressing up and those things aren't wrong!!! BUT I do need to check my heart and see where my heart and motivations are to make sure those are right. I'm still processing this week. A week is hard to experiment with these things because you so quickly move to the next thing and it doesn't quite allow enough time to process each week. But it is good and in the end maybe ( I said maybe, no guarantees!) I will re-do some of these weeks!

I did LOVE this quote from the chapter: "I hope one day clothes and appearance and everyone else's assessment of me doesn't even occur to me."

I would love for that quote to be true of me some day. Looking back I did save A LOT of time not having to decide what to wear. Yeah, lots to process about last week but I'm already half way through the possessions week, more to come on that...