Every night, I diligently make sure my phone is plugged in. It's one of the only habits that I have. It's a necessary one because it's my alarm clock and if the battery dies overnight, which it likely would since I'm ending the day at 8% or less battery remaining from all the emails, photos, and facebook through the day, then I would not wake up in time for work the next day. Last year about this time, I started my own War Room. This is a nod to the Kendrick Brother Movie that came out in 2015. If you haven't seen it, I put the trailer below and you can learn more about the movie and the Kendrick Brother's here. I did not dedicate my closet or a whole room to be a war room, simply next to my bed, between my bed and dresser, I hung up a prayer for my ministry at church, I posted verses about praying, I even got a vinyl decal from the dollar store that said "pray more worry less". I put out a blanket to make it comfortable, I bought a prayer journal, and left a notebook to fill in my requests and cross off as they are answered. I told my mom I wanted to start praying more and asked her to hold me accountable since she is the most dedicated prayer warrior I know. She was excited and did what she could living so far away. She even got me a plaque that beautifully reads pray to put in my corner. But over the course of time I stopped praying.
I had put all these measures in place, I had invested time and money and still I couldn't build the habit of praying frequently. It wasn't until one evening when I did make time to connect with God again that an idea came to me. It was impressed upon me that I can find time to plug my phone in every night. I asked myself, what does that say about my priorities that I make sure every night I have my phone recharged and ready for the next day, but won't recharge/reconnect myself with God to make sure I am powered up for the next day? That's when I started my charging challenge. I decided I wouldn't plug my phone in until I prayed. If I didn't have time to connect myself to God as my power source, I didn't have time to connect my phone to the outlet as it's power source. Having it linked to the reminder why and a routine that has already been established has helped me to be more consistent with my prayer life before bed. If this is a struggle for you, I challenge you to take the Charging Challenge as well. If you have good strategies for building good prayer habits, leave comments below, as I'm still working on building prayer time into my morning routine as well!
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Not much of a post here and I am not the first one to do this idea, however, I have a co-worker that LOVES Pokemon, specifically fire types, but hates the color orange and I find that to be so ironic I couldn't pass up the opportunity on her birthday to celebrate. The first year I made her a Charmander (our friend on the left) because he is absolutely adorable, pretty simple, and orange. She loved him and asked if he would evolve next year. I couldn't say no, so in the middle we have last year's cake, with Charmeleon, and this years cake, Charizard. Each year got increasingly complicated, and I wanted to be able to share my hard work. The cake itself is nothing special, just your favorite box cake flavor, then I got two tubs of vanilla frosting. I sketched the picture on the cake in the frosting with just a toothpick so that if I didn't like something I just had to smooth it out and start over. Once satisfied with the sketch I went over the outline in black frosting. After outlining it I put the frosting that was left into smaller ziploc bags to die them to the correct color, snipped the edge and filled it in. She was happy with the final product! (sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it lit, but we were worried we were going to set off the smoke detectors in the school and had to act fast!) Bonus Pinata
![]() Then with my handy hot glue gun I glued the orange ribbon around the and attached them to the back of his head. Next, used the glue gun to glue the tissue paper around the cardboard, trimming off extra pieces. For extra detail I ran ribbon along the edge of the wing too to tie them together. I'd glue a small straight portion, fasten ribbon then cut a slit allowing it to turn at the curves and repeated until the end. For the tail I gathered red, orange and yellow tissue paper and cut them into a small square all the same size. I twisted them so they didn't line up perfect then folded them up. I twisty tied the bottom end to hold them altogether in place. Glue gun gets used again to attach to tail. Final product isn't perfect, but for something that gets beat until it falls apart anyways, it does the job. She knew exactly what (who?) it was and loved him right away. He was worth the extra effort for the extra joy he brought. Hope some of these ideas would be useful to you as well in planning you next Pokemon party! (Or that you enjoyed the photos!)
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