Just a few photos of Florida to remind me that it isn't always going to stay so "gloomy" outside.
Amazing how a perfectly good week can go into crash and burn mode so quickly. With a broken washing machine, a flooded basement from the thaw outside, kids who "forget" they have a math packet due and try to complete it before school in a half an hour, others who have such crabby mood swings that we all wait for the next explosion to happen...I fight to keep my perspective in life. My life is wrapped up in parenting and keeping this home running smoothly. When everything falls apart at once, it is such a struggle to feel at all good about the job I am doing. At these times, I feel like a train wreck and I just want to go hide my head in the covers and not come out.
Amazing how a perfectly good week can go into crash and burn mode so quickly. With a broken washing machine, a flooded basement from the thaw outside, kids who "forget" they have a math packet due and try to complete it before school in a half an hour, others who have such crabby mood swings that we all wait for the next explosion to happen...I fight to keep my perspective in life. My life is wrapped up in parenting and keeping this home running smoothly. When everything falls apart at once, it is such a struggle to feel at all good about the job I am doing. At these times, I feel like a train wreck and I just want to go hide my head in the covers and not come out.
As Kenna said before she got on the bus, it looks like it is going to be a gloomy day. It is just one of those days. One of those days when I forget that this isn't about me and what I can handle. I gave that up a long time ago..I know that the strength to do the job I do everyday does not come from me....that this alone is of God. When I try to do this on my own, I will fall so short. I want to use this day to help remind me of where my source of all things is from. As soon as I take my eyes off of Jesus, and start looking around at all of the challenges I face everyday, I fall apart. It is true, I can not do this without complete faith in the One who can.
Getting overwhelmed is one of the worst places I find myself in. I do not handle that well and I so easily forget what my mission is in life. I think this gloomy day can be turn around with a change of focus. I tell my kids that all of the time---they would like it if I applied that lesson more often in my own life!
This is the hymn that is playing through my head and may it be contagious:
O soul, are you weary and troubled?No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
