I want SOAP to change my life.

I have been struggling for the past couple of weeks of how I can fit my quiet time into my {what I think is...} busy life. Before we moved I lived 6 minutes from work. So I could literally sleep till 7:15 and get to work by 8. Now I have a 20 minute ride to work, so it tends to put a dent in my morning schedule! I could get up at 5:15, hit the gym for 30 minutes, get ready for work, cook breakfast, and have my quiet time. Well now, things have changed a little bit. + I have a fab new hair do and have to round brush it!

So, like I said... I've been struggling to find the time. I want to do it in the morning because then I have the whole day to reflect on what God's teaching me. Lately I've been slacking and my 'quiet time' has consisted of reading Jesus Calling through my Kindle App on the iPhone. Slacker.

I read a few months ago a post from my bff Katie over at Dashing Dish about SOAP Journaling. God keeps putting it into my head and bringing me back to that post. 

SOAP stands for:

Scripture

Observation

Application

Prayer

Obviously S is for the scripture of the day. O is for the observation of the verse &/or what God is trying to teach for that day. A is determining how the verse is applicable to my life. P is for the prayer of the day and reflecting back to what I've just learned through quiet time.

After a recent sermon at church I realized that yes I need to make God a priority, but sometimes it's not realistic to start off and be able to every single day. First I will make it a point to do SOAP Journaling 4 days out of the week, then hopefully I will be able to do it on a daily basis.

It's sad to think of how much time we spend cooking, eating, texting, painting our nail, sitting in front of the TV, reading, gym, etc. I mean, think about it... I admit I watch an hour of TV on any given day..it used to be way worse but I cut some pointless TV shows out of my schedule. But I spend an hour a day watching TV and don't have 5 minutes to give up to God, that's depressing! All he did for me and I don't have 5 minutes. Rude! I have had Katie's 30 day devotional printed out for months now. I did a few days and then stopped. I pulled it back out and I'm going to start it up again using SOAP Journaling, and this time, finish. I want to be able to speak scripture and help all friends and family with Godly wisdom and advice. The bible may have been written a long long long while ago, but it's living and breathing today, just as it was then.