old habits are hard to break

I fell asleep last night on the couch about 7:30. It was weird. Kim says that she tried to wake me up around 11:30. I vaguely remember seeing a few scenes of Dirty Jobs at some point. I got off the couch and went to bed somewhere around 2:30. Weird.

I seem to have one night a week like that. Last week it was Monday night. I fell asleep in Sadie's bed while I was tucking the girls in for the night. I think my voice trailed off even while I was singing their "going-to-sleep" songs...

My normal bed-time is somewhere between 1 and 2 in the morning. Some days that's because I have to work on stuff for the week; other times it's because I've developed a habit for staying up late. I think it began in college, on the freshman floor at Toccoa Falls College. We never went to bed before 2:00.

As I approach 40 years on this planet, that schedule is getting harder to keep. But it's a habit now, and habits die hard. Sometimes my physical body overrides my intentions (like last night) and I fall asleep.

I am believing God for the day when my spiritual intentions have control of me, when I have put to death what belongs to the old way of life. I want my spiritual intentions to override my other inclinations. I want to be transformed, and my life marked by the right habits. Good habits should be easy to pick up, don't you think? A new way of living, thinking, acting, loving...

New habits, here I come!