Building Habits

On Sunday mornings I get to spend about an hour and half with a group of High School students discussing a curriculum that my church uses called Rooted.  Each week explores a different aspect of God and what it looks like to follow Him, The students have three quiet times where they read a page or two and answer some questions and journal about what they are reading and learning.  Each week is a new discussion and I love hearing what the students have to say, watching them open up a little bit more and how honest they are about where they are at.  This Sunday morning as we talked about how difficult it is sometimes to find the time to read our Bible's and pray I was reminded of my journey with P365.

I shared with the kids my goal to eat breakfast everyday and how difficult it was for me at first.  I never felt like eating in the mornings because I couldn't really find the time and was never really hungry.
After a few weeks of eating everyday I began to notice that I was waking up hungry.  Now, I want to eat every morning.
I think that praying is the same.  When spending time with God becomes a habit for us, we become hungry for it.  We want to be in his presence because its good for us, its what we were made for.

Besides being a brilliant analogy for the kids in my group, its also a lesson for me.  Maybe my P365 goals don't specifically have to do with prayer or reading, but I am building habits daily that will pour into other areas of my life.  Living generously, and allowing myself to be seen will become as natural as eating breakfast every morning.  I will start to become hungry for these things, because they are good for me, because they are what I was made for.

What habits are you building in 2013?