rain on the window

6am, steady rain on the window, purring cat at my feet and an otherwise silent home . . . maybe not perfection for you, but for me it feels like all I could ask for right now. It seems that in the last year or so my "personal time", "quiet time", "devotional time", whatever you want to call this time I spend in reading, journaling and prayer with God has just become so much more precious than ever before. God is teaching me new truth on a daily basis and I don't think I've ever grown as a Christian, a leader and a person as much as I have in the last year or so. Just in time for another baby. Thank God for all of that.