Saturday, January 5, 2013
"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." Romans 12:12
Last year I worked through the Jesus Calling devotional by Sarah Young and I absolutely loved/love it! I picked up her new book called Jesus Today last week and I am really enjoying it. In this book the scriptures are actually written next to the devotional and I really like that. The verse from yesterday that I read was the Romans 12:12 verse. It was extremely helpful considering I was laid up in bed and was beside myself that I had a million things to get done. So, despite my aggrevation I took it as an opportunity to really listen to what God might be trying to teach me. I know you will not believe this :) but once I got quiet He actually spoke to my heart about some things:) Before I had kids my house was spotless. If you have ever been to my house you know that I do not keep clutter. I am simple and I think every item should have its own place. When Sam came home I had quite a struggle with this mentality. I had to get over the fact that there would be toys that would always be in the middle of the floor. When the girls came home I made sure I had plenty of storage and bins and everything else to keep their things tidy. It helped that they all had huge closets and I had a wonderful garage to store things. The past two years our house was on the market and I was always in "ready to show mode." As exhausting as it was, I loved that every one had to be on board with my clean house compulsion:) Well, five months ago we moved into this apartment with tiny closets, no garage, and no storage space of any kind. I have to admit I have been making myself and my family pretty crazy since our move to keep everything in place (even when there was not "a place"). I am pretty sure that I have spent 95% of my time at home cleaning, organizing, or moving things around so it would some how fit and I have missed out on moments with my family. I have to start being okay with toys laying on the floor. The kids will live if there room is not cleaned every day. The clothes can wait one more day to be put away. I was out of commission for two days and we all survived:) I need to work on slowing down and stop stressing about the mundane things of life and miss out on what is important.
Well, I am back on my feet today and I had to put into practice what I mentioned above. The knot on my leg went away yesterday and now is just a huge, ugly bruise on my leg. I got some laundry done and cleaned up the kitchen, but I am not trying to make up for the two days I was out. I have some yummy beef stew in the crock pot and we are all staying inside this evening. We are not supposed to get much snow, but it started snowing a few minutes ago and it really is pretty.
The kids slept in the living room last night. I got their picture while they were just lounging. Chloe fell asleep before we finished the movie and I thought it was funny the way she had her hands.
Last year I worked through the Jesus Calling devotional by Sarah Young and I absolutely loved/love it! I picked up her new book called Jesus Today last week and I am really enjoying it. In this book the scriptures are actually written next to the devotional and I really like that. The verse from yesterday that I read was the Romans 12:12 verse. It was extremely helpful considering I was laid up in bed and was beside myself that I had a million things to get done. So, despite my aggrevation I took it as an opportunity to really listen to what God might be trying to teach me. I know you will not believe this :) but once I got quiet He actually spoke to my heart about some things:) Before I had kids my house was spotless. If you have ever been to my house you know that I do not keep clutter. I am simple and I think every item should have its own place. When Sam came home I had quite a struggle with this mentality. I had to get over the fact that there would be toys that would always be in the middle of the floor. When the girls came home I made sure I had plenty of storage and bins and everything else to keep their things tidy. It helped that they all had huge closets and I had a wonderful garage to store things. The past two years our house was on the market and I was always in "ready to show mode." As exhausting as it was, I loved that every one had to be on board with my clean house compulsion:) Well, five months ago we moved into this apartment with tiny closets, no garage, and no storage space of any kind. I have to admit I have been making myself and my family pretty crazy since our move to keep everything in place (even when there was not "a place"). I am pretty sure that I have spent 95% of my time at home cleaning, organizing, or moving things around so it would some how fit and I have missed out on moments with my family. I have to start being okay with toys laying on the floor. The kids will live if there room is not cleaned every day. The clothes can wait one more day to be put away. I was out of commission for two days and we all survived:) I need to work on slowing down and stop stressing about the mundane things of life and miss out on what is important.
Well, I am back on my feet today and I had to put into practice what I mentioned above. The knot on my leg went away yesterday and now is just a huge, ugly bruise on my leg. I got some laundry done and cleaned up the kitchen, but I am not trying to make up for the two days I was out. I have some yummy beef stew in the crock pot and we are all staying inside this evening. We are not supposed to get much snow, but it started snowing a few minutes ago and it really is pretty.
The kids slept in the living room last night. I got their picture while they were just lounging. Chloe fell asleep before we finished the movie and I thought it was funny the way she had her hands.
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