Friday, April 24, 2009

Sitting on a marker stained glider taking it all in....

So there I was, sitting on a marker stained glider taking it all in. What is all you ask? Well, I'm holding my 6 week old daughter who is screaming her head off from reflux, gas, or maybe just stress. Meanwhile, my other 2 daughters, ages 3 and 17 months are repeating incessantly hold me hold me. All this in a room that looks like a tornado hit it. So I'm thinking to myself, I need to take a picture because surely there are other moms out there right now who could appreciate some transparency. Proof that supermom doesn't exist. I often think of Michelle Duggar and what she did when she had 4 or 5 under 5. Was she as organized and sweet as she appears today? I know she had her moments. I wrote her the other day to see if she had any tips for managing my home with 3 under 3. All I got back was an automated email saying they get too many emails to respond.
It's hard to find any practical, step by step help for mom's of toddlers and infants. There are a lot of people with broad ideas but right now, I need practical examples.
Fast Forward to bath time. Sitting on the toilet watching the girls bathe, desperate house mom comes to mind. I'm a desperate house mom. Desperate that is for God. A mom who is desperate for my saviour to come and intervene in my life, in every situation. You see, in all my searching, I'm usually crying out to God for wisdom. Reminding myself that the bible says, if you lack wisdom, to ask God and He will give it liberally without reproach. So I'm constantly asking for wisdom, for knowledge and for understanding. I realize that my children are gifts from God (psalm 127) and with that comes a great responsibility on my part to take these gifts and give them back to my God. In doing so, He will grant me the grace and mercy to raise them, to train them and to lead them to Him. This is my ministry. This is what He has called me to do. Giving my kids back to the Lord has been fairly easy so far because mothering has been a lot harder than I ever would have thought. I think I put too much pressure on myself. However, these are the thoughts that fuel that pressure: being the person who is with them most of the time I am responsible for their discipline, learning, nutrition, interactions with others, exercise..... and the list goes on.
Back to wisdom. So gleaning from other's is a great way to learn but I'm also learning that listening to that small still voice throughout the chaos of my day is a better, more precise way to learn. Not being able to find what I am looking for has helped me to look to Him who has every answer to every question.

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