“The Craziest Thing I’ve Ever Done”
2011 at 1:11 pm | by Janelle Bradshaw
So says Naomi, mother of four little ones:
“I discovered this blog a week or two ago and clicked on this 5’o'clock club wondering what it was about. People committing to getting up at 5am to have their quiet time?! Wow! Simultaneously, I thought ‘I could never do that’, and, ‘I want to do that’. The next day I tried and failed. I couldn’t drag myself out of bed. The rest of the day I felt so disappointed, but I also prayed many times that God would get me up the next day. He did, and every day since. I am astounded at just how wonderful it is. I am able to spend two hours every morning with the Lord. I am a mother of four young children, and that amount of time seemed totally out of the realms of possibility a few weeks ago. And yet it is something I always longed for. I am not a morning person, and it does hurt to be up that early (until I’ve had my cuppa), but every morning when the kids start waking up, I am dancing inside, exclaiming ‘I just spent two hours with God!!’ I am discovering new things in his Word, contemplating them, systematically reading his Word, praying for myself and my family and lots of other people and singing praise. I consider it the craziest thing I’ve ever done. But I figure Jesus deserves a crazy commitment.”
