The 90 Day "Pruning"

Okay, to be honest, I didn't really want to do this.  I've decided, well, God's decided and I'm listening :-/, to do a 90 Day Prune.  I came across a reading plan on my iPhone to read through the Bible in 90 days and I've committed to it.  Also, during these 90 days I'm not going to pray for a baby, or pregnancy, or direction for adoption vs. conception, I'm just going to read the Bible, pray, and seek God.  A great woman who I admire very much came up to me today and affirmed that I needed to do this.  I know she was very nervous about giving me that word but I can't tell you how much I needed it!

So, along with reading my Bible in 90 days, praying, and seeking God, I'm going to make a commitment to work out as much as I can and eat as healthy as I can.  God gave me this body both physically and spiritually and it should be treated as a temple.  So, to jump start this process I begin with the 90 Days of Pruning.  I came up with the title from John 15: 1-17.

 Jesus, the True Vine

15 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.  2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.  3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.  4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.

 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.  6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned.  7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!  8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.

 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.  10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.  11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!  12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.  13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.  14 You are my friends if you do what I command.  15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.  16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.  17 This is my command: Love each other.

Just as Abraham was willing to give Isaac as a sacrifice to God, I pray that I may give my desire to him and all that's within me so my only focus will be him.  A great man said recently, "There is only one person worth living for, and that person is Jesus Christ." -(Scott Levesque, my amazing husband)  I will try and blog through this process as much as I can so you can catch up on how things are going.

As a side note, we recently saw Dr. Anderson who informed us that I don't ovulate on a regular basis.  He prescribed medication which I have decided NOT to take during the next 90 days.  I do believe that God can work through medicine, but I want him to work through me first.