Read About Kim Choosing the Best Over the Good

Hey Warrior Princesses,

WP Kim wrote a comment that needed to be the daily post rather than just a comment.  I'm so excited!  This is exactly what I want to happen with this blog.  Thank you for sharing, Kim.  I hope the rest of you are encouraged to evaluate what you are doing and asking yourself if you are choosing what is good or what is best as you read what Kim had to say. 
Sole Deo Gloria,
WP Stacey

p.s.  Originally I posted this as a "One Thing" article, but I've come back in and edited my introduction because after further reflection I think that Kim's article is more in line with the chapter from the Simplicity study "The Good Competes with the Best". 
Kim Choosing the Best Over the Good

I've been doing my one thing for 18 years now and it'll be my one thing for at least another 18...it's to be a focused mom to my children--nurturing, feeding, training, teaching, and loving the 5 plus children He's put in my home (fosters come and go--that's the "plus" :)

I haven't always known it was my ONE thing and I've gotten distracted with other things that seemed a part of my one thing. Like when I started an Awana program so that my children could have that excellent source of knowledge, spiritual training, and Bible memory that Awana provides in such a fun and creative way. At first it was a great family ministry but 6 years into it I found myself nurturing 100 leaders and over 300 children...oops! Back to my one thing at home. (I still attend with my daughter on Sunday nights as she finishes the high school program, but that's a special time with her as we walk to church and listen to the teaching together--definitely fits the description of my one thing.)

I was very impacted by that chapter in the Simplicity study as well and this song kept ringing in my ears until I seized the day and wrote down the verse that God gave me about my 3 daughters who will all too soon be grown (I added it at the end of the song.)
Carolyn Arends \ Seize The Day

I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin
She is an author, or maybe a poet
A genius but it's just this world doesn't know it
She works on her novel most every day
If you laugh she will say

chorus:

Seize the day, seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day, pray for grace from God's hand
Then nothing will stand in your way
Seize the day

Well I know a doctor, a fine young physician
Left his six-figure job for a mission position
He's healing the sick in an African clinic
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says "We work through the night so most every day
As we watch the sun rise we can say

chorus

Well I know a man who's been doing some thinking
He's as bitter and cold as the whiskey he's drinking
He's talking 'bout fear, about chances not taken
If you listen to him you can hear his heart breaking
He says "One day you're a boy and the next day you're dead
I wish way back when someone had said

chorus

Well one thing I've noticed, wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living
So I'm singing my songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want, I'll still say

Chorus
My verse:
Well I know a girl who is wanting to be heard
Her emotions and thoughts, they pour out word upon word
She's patient while we work on chore after chore
Seems like we'll be done soon but there's always more
I pray for each child, almost every day
And now I can hear my Lord say...
Seize the day! Seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day, pray for grace from God's hand
Then nothing will stand in your way
Seize the day