Today marks one week since I started this blog. I welcomed all of you, maybe even got some of you some what excited. Then...what do I do? I don't post a thing. I am sorry for my lack of posting and instead of giving you a long list of excuses as I am sure I could do. I am going to dive in to my first real post on my new blog.

Okay, if you are a regular on Pieces Of My Heart you know I am just an ordinary person with the same likes and dislikes as many of you. I run into the nuts at the grocery store, rude people at the restaurant, I love to give kisses to my nephews and just have a lazy day just me and my grandmother. When I say I am going to try to dedicate this blog to a more faith based site, I totally meant it. But I am not perfect by any means so I don't want you to think for a moment that I am a big spiritual sister. Because I am learning with the best of you. So, let's delve into this blog together, alright? We could learn side by side and if you learn from me thats great too!

So, here I am in the kitchen, my laptop is in front of me, I feel the chilly air because my brother Aaron opened the back door to let the dog out. My cat is sound a sleep in my laptop case which is wide open on the bench next to me. I look out my window and I see snow covered trees. Ahhh yes, snow at the end of March it's quite a thing to see.

So where, Ginger, where are you taking us on this spiritual journey you have started? You may be wondering. When will you make me think, ponder...all of that good stuff. I am getting to that. Please keep in mind this is my first real post on this blog.

So where am I going? I am going to just let you see a glimpse into my own life. Easter was last Sunday. In both Sunday morning and Sunday evening services and that past Friday at school during chapel, I heard three great sermons that made me want to listen and not just look at my rings on my finger or think about lunch. I am not saying that on a normal Sunday I daydream but, you know those kind of sermons that make your hair stand up on your arms and make your heart beat so fast you think you may just keel over?

Of course the cross was mentioned on Sunday, the horrendous price Jesus had to pay for our lousy sins. When you really think about what he had to endure don't you just want to be sick to your stomach? Then you think  about that time when you humbled your heart before the Lord and asked Him to forgive you of your sins and for Him to live in your heart. In my case when I was a young girl. It makes me want to count my blessings and be thankful that I was raised in the church with godly parents who taught me the true and only way to the Lord.

But then what? I go to church, I read my Bible, I work in a Christian school, I pray. For how long though, how long do I read my Bible? How long do I really pour my heart out to the Lord? Am I really being that grateful for what the Lord did for me, when I just read a verse in the Bible and say I'll go back to it? Am I saying thanks for those nails in His precious hands when I quickly pray before bed?

Our Christ did so much for us on that cross have you thanked Him today?