Happy February, my friends!
I hope your 2024 has begun well.
If you follow my blog, you know Bob & I
had a wonderful beginning for the new year
as we traveled and visited family & friends in CA.
Now we are home and settling in –
– with Christmas decor finally put away
and the house clean and semi-organized again.
It’s time now to take away that “semi-” & get serious!
I am sharing a Word for 2024 with my blogging friend,
Sue Newell at Sue’s LIFE Journal – Sharing LIFE
Our word is SIFT.
No, our “Sift” is not intended to be a sifter.
Ours is an acronym with each letter representing
something we intend to focus on this 2024 year.
Let me tell you about that first letter
– S –
for
Simplify!
My office is not quite that bad… but it’s cluttered.
My closets are overloaded with clothes I should give away.
My storage room downstairs is full of things I really don’t need.
My filing system lacks the kind of organization that it should have.
So, this is the year to take care of those problems.
Organize – and simplify!
Can you identify?
In today’s entry for Turning Point, Dr. David Jeremiah
inspired me to begin with prayer and purpose.
He quoted an important verse from scripture:
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life.
2 Peter 1:3, NIV
He put that concept of “NEED” into a Godly perspective
as he reminded me of a Maslow concept.
Dr. Jeremiah wrote:
“In 1943, Abraham Maslow, the son of Jewish immigrants to America,
published his famous diagram illustrating the hierarchy of human needs.
It was a triangle that explained our physical needs,
our need for safety and love,
and our need for esteem
and for self-actualization.”
Then Dr. Jeremiah inserted a principle you and I believe.
He said, “But Maslow was a humanist
who neglected to mention our spiritual needs
as described in the Bible.”
The patriarch Jacob said,
“God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.”
(Genesis 33:11, NIV).
As I apply that word, “Simplify” to my 2024 days,
I will keep a clear definition of NEED in mind!
And I will remember I have MORE than I need!
Has God inspired you to
SIMPLIFY
your life
in 2024?
MORE than you need?
Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com
Love,
JanBeek
(P.S. Tune in tomorrow
for what the “I” in SIFT
represents!)
Comments on: "Simplify" (15)
AWWWW! Thanks for the link to my blog, Jan. Love your post on SIMPLIFY!
Thank you, Sue 👌🏽❤️🙏🏽
Thank you Jan…. I am happy to see you safely home and in an ‘Organising’ Sifting mood ;-)… Clearing out is very therapeutic .. I love the word Simplify…. And look forward to tomorrows ‘I’ reveal xx <3
Oh, thank you, Sue…. for reading and commenting and reminding me that I promised to do a daily explanation of the acronym for SIFT. I’ll do the “I” today!
Look forward to it as I’m just heading for bed lol
Sending love xx ❤️ 😘
I definitely have MORE than I need! I am blessed! When I wake up in the morning and feel a chill in the air I can switch on my space heater with a convenient remote control. As I snuggle in the warmth I feel a moment of sadness knowing there are people and animals cold outside so I say a prayer for them and send an extra thank you to God. I have so many extra blankets! Time to gather them up with my extra sweaters, shoes, jackets and clothing and donate them to a good cause!
Yes, Laina, I intend to do the same thing!
So well put together – nice and simply
Thank you very much, {{{Derrick}}} ❤️
Welcome back home!!
Simplifying and donated the excess is the way to go!!
Blessings!
Thank you! I’m working on it!! 👌🏽❤️
Simplifying is such a good thing to work on – blessings to you two!🙂
Thank you so much! It’s a work in progress!
I am all for it to simplify my life as much as possible!
It’s easier said than done, Uta. But, it is definitely needed in my case… and a work in progress! Thanks for reading and commenting. I appreciate you! Have a great rest of your week. Good luck with that process of simplifying!