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Well I had recently gotten into blogging and I worked very hard creating my blog and arranging it the way I wanted. I really liked it! I had written some entries about my God-Daughter and a hot air balloon trip and was really getting into it! It was so exciting to me. But then I came across a web site that had new and different blogger layouts...And I began to get a little greedy with the layout and design of my blog. I though...If I could just have that design or that layout it would make my page look so amazing! So I tried it...I copied and pasted the html and so on and so forth and after several failed attempts I got one to work and save in the html section! I was thrilled and elated......until I viewed my blog and decided I didn't like the layout as much as I thought I would. On top of that most of my widgets disappeared. So I decided to change it back. But it wouldn't go back...and it would recreate any of my pictures or widgets or edits. And I realized something....on the spiritual side. God provides us all with a specific design or layout for our lives that is specifically programmed to meet each of our needs. But all too often I find myself looking at other people's layouts and designs wishing I had their layout or design. I often think life would be so much better if I had a cooler layout or if I had the design of someone else. But then I try to adapt that layout into MY life and it doesn't fit...doesn't work...and doesn't look the same at all. The things that I had built up in my mind to be so fabulous and so wonderful only seem to fail when I try and fit them into my design...You know, the one that God picked for me and I forget is the perfect design for my life. I find that the only time my design fits and works for the life God created for me is when I walk in his will for my life...His good, pleasing and perfect will.



Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)