One of my favorite things we do with our leadership team is have accountability partners.  At the start of each semester, I pair the girls up and ask them to each think of three questions that they need to be asked every single week.  They write them on a slip of paper and exchange them with their partner. 

The pairs then have to meet up each week — in person — to have their accountability time.  I do this as well with my own accountability partner and let me be the first to say that knowing someone will be asking you those three questions over coffee on Thursday night really helps keep you on track the rest of the week.

And no, my three questions do not involve my hair.

Trust me, I am as shocked as you are.  It truly is a miracle.

A few weeks ago, I really felt like we needed to add a fourth question to everyone’s list — and that the question should be “Did you go to church this week?”  I know all too well how hard it can be to get up and go to church when you’ve already been to three chapel services that week at your college.  My girls give and give and give of themselves each week and I know how important it is for them to have God pour back into them. 

So, we collectively agreed to forsake Bedside Baptist even though we know that Pastor Pillow and Minister Mattress will be disappointed.  And I don’t even want to think about what Sister Sheets will say about us at the Gossip Prayer Circle. 

This morning, while on my way to the office, I passed a small country church that offered a motivational saying to keep us on track:

“Jesus rose from the dead.  You can rise from bed.”

Amen.