Pastor Steve’s Blog Sep 2, 2018 If you read my Blog last week, you will remember that I wondered if anyone read my weekly Blog and I asked you to let me know the next time you saw me. Well, I want to thank those of you who responded and let me know both in person and via email that you look forward to reading my weekly Blog. For this week’s Blog I want to share a few thoughts from an online article I read this week entitled: “When you need new habits for a new season: A Survival Guide for the Soul” by Ann Voskamp. She begins her article by saying that Soul Survivals keep rhythms, that every day is Day One, and that Today is made of fresh hope. She then shared the following: “Once, while I was reading to one of my daughters a story about a young woman who “put on her habit,” our little girl reached up and patted my shoulder. “What’s a habit?” she asked. I stopped for a moment, and then spoke slowly, carefully choosing my words. It was a “new dawn” moment for me, a fresh recognition of a familiar idea. A habit is something that is worn. A habit is something we wear. And a habit is the way we wear our days. If you consistently keep the same rhythms every day you will keep your soul from growing threadbare. Consistently keep the same soul rhythms every day, and you will grow deeper in Him, the One who will reweave your soul into glory. Musicians play one right note after the next right note after the next right note. It is not an erratic splattering of sound or a fickle, helter-skelter banging of random notes. Music has order. It is composed. The notes played are intentional, considered, and deliberate. Lives that have rhythm sing. They don’t survive-they thrive.” My take away from her thoughts is we need to develop a rhythm in the daily practice of our spiritual habits…one that will make our lives sing. Our habits are us!