Being intentional is very very challenging

I am still struggling with how to be more intentional with bringing the Lord more into my life and making Him be the central part of my life. Dealing with issues with life, especially when it comes to your kids is time consuming and exhausting. I started to try to be more intentional by putting my bible right at my spot at the kitchen table that way I can read it as I have breakfast. I also thought I need to get my prayer cards going again. I started these by reading the bible and choosing something that just stood out and writing it down on an index card and writing a prayer that goes with that scripture. I have taken these to work to read throughout my day when my Outlook reminds me. LOL. I very much like doing those and it does help to stop for just a minute and read a prayer card and just let go of the work at hand and think about God. I am working on our family bedtime prayer at night to not be the standard stuff we pray for all the time but to add in at least one thing related to praying for someone else or our country or anything out of the norm. I have been considering what I can do for children but still am not sure on that one. I do think that I will sponsor a child through Compassion but I want to also look into other possibilities like Big Brothers Big Sisters and possibly a ministry that helps with young women faced with making the choice of life or abortion and/or helping children in divorced families. Those are two that are very close to my heart since I experienced them both. I am reading AD Cronicles by Brodie and Brock Thoene and am loving the whole idea seeing what the bigger picture is. These books are set in the time of Jesus and the stories are about his life here through the eyes of others around him. The first one is about the blind man that Jesus puts clay on his eyes and says go wash in the pool and he can see. He was blind from birth so this is super miraculous! Another one centers around Lazarus and how he ends up sick and dead and of course, the part we already know from the bible about Jesus raising him from the dead. The one I am reading now is about before Jesus' birth and it's about Mary and Joseph and their thoughts, feeling and things that happen on their journey with being chosen to be the mother and step-father to the son of God. I am really loving these books because it makes the bible seem so much more real and I am learning so much more about the culture and times of Jesus which makes understanding the bible that much easier. I have only read 4 books so far of I think a 10 book series. I guess you can say reading these is keeping the Lord in the forefront of my mind more because the stories are about and surrounding Jesus. So, I am making progress in being more intentional about my faith but I have to tell you it is and will continue to be a daily challenge. I will keep praying for the Lord to guide me. My hope is you too will let the Lord guide you.