Hey, hey, hey!

Finding the right devotional to use on a daily basis has been super difficult for me. I have tried many times and in many different ways to make quiet time an everyday thing for me. But it has seemed that no matter how hard I try or “creative” I try to get with my quiet time, it just wouldn’t stick. So I basically had given up. Thrown in the towel. I honestly can say that I just thought quiet time wasn’t for me.

Luckily though, God had other plans for my quiet time. It is funny because the devotional I am going to talk about is actually the same as one that I have tried using in the past. I just made it too complicated. I see all of these other people who I feel like have really indepth quiet time and they study the theology behind it and they do it for hours and it all just looks perfect and …… I basically became stuck in the comparison trap. I looked at people’s pretty instagram pictures of their quiet time and was only reminded of how messy and imperfect mine was. I saw them digging so deep and I was simply reminded of my struggle to just even be consistent. and the comparison trap just wore me down until I threw my hands up and said  “enough”! That is until I decided to revisit the She Reads Truth website.

I get emails from She Reads Truth everyday. I signed up a while ago to get a devotional sent to my email daily thinking it would make actually reading the Bible daily easier. WRONG. But it is because of one of those emails that I have finally found my groove with quiet time. The email was about the power of prayer. I am going to spare you the gory details, but I have really been relying on the power of prayer lately. So when I saw that, I immediately knew it was a God wink! I decided to check that email later that night, sit in my bed, and just let the words I read really resonate with me. I normally find myself trying to really over think and apply the topics to every facet of my life during quiet time. This time though, I decided to just pray to God for clarity and to just have Him speak to my heart through His word. I surrendered. I didn’t try to hard. I didn’t overthink. I just let His words set in and I let the words of the devotion resonate and then I prayed. And that was it.

It was quick. It was, dare I say, easy. But it was wonderful. When I stripped out all of the extra “shoulds” of quiet time, I actually found that I was able to do it. I took an resource and ran with it in my own way and on my own terms. Do I still hope to get to that hour long, super deep quiet time level one day?? Heck yes! But is it where I need to start. Not at all.

My advice? You just do you, girl. If you surrender to Jesus and follow your heart, you can’t do this wrong. Take the pretty pictures and ideal worlds for what they are but create your own. Just begin somewhere and you will get there.

Have any of you found unique or different ways to add quiet time to your everyday routine?? I would love to hear about it in the comments below and hopefully we can learn from one another!