Are you listening...?

So...I'm gonna be honest with you, yesterday was hard....really hard. I overslept, kids ate poptarts for  breakfast, we rushed through school, had errands to run, blah, blah, blah. My day ended with me running into the house with a diarrhea covered carseat and baby in tow.....does this sound familiar to anyone else or is it just me?
As I leaned over the bathtub to give my sweet baby a head to toe washdown, the tears began to flow from my eyes as I thought to myself, "Am I a horrible mom?, what happened today?, why is this so hard sometimes?"
Yesterday was a fail! Have you ever felt this way? Are you a weary momma? Well, pull up a chair and lend me your ear because I want to tell you something...are you listening?....

STOP AND BREATHE

Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, "Come all who are weary and I will give you rest". REST!!!! Did you hear that, I'm not even sure I know what that word means anymore, but guess what? Jesus does and He has promised to give it to us, if we just come to Him. Come to Him with our burdens, our sorrows, our fears, our failures, our worries and our shortcomings. He already knows it all anyways He just wants you to bring it to Him. You know how it feels when you talk to your best friend over coffee, He is that best friend! He wants you to talk to Him, day or night, in the car, in the shower, wherever you can because He is always there, always awake and always listening...and He wants to tell you something too!

Right now as I sit hours later, holding my now clean and sleeping baby, He is telling me,"I love you my sweet daughter, lay your head down on my shoulder, tell me your troubles, it's been a hard day I know but my mercies are new every morning, so rest now my precious child and remember I made you, so stop trying so hard to make everything perfect, just be you and I will take it from there". That is what He is telling me........

What is He telling you and are you willing to listen?

Just....?

How many times have you heard someone say, "you're just a mom", "you're just a wife", "you just stay at home, that's not a job...you don't work"? I can't even begin to count how many times I have heard those phrases since my husband and I made the choice for me to stay at home. However, tonight as I sat cradling my newborn daughter in my arms, looking down at her sweet face, I thought to myself, "you will never be....JUST anything"!

God has called me to the 2 greatest responsibilities on this earth...motherhood and wifehood (is that a word?). With His help everyday, I am building up armies, raising arrows (Psalm 127:3-5), and bringing up the next generation of godly women. God has called me to be my husbands helpmeet (Genesis 2:18). I am not a slave, nor do I ever feel used or degraded. My husband appreciates all that I do for him, whether it be ironing his clothes, fixing his plate, or greeting him at the door with a smile after work, and he lets me know it everyday. It is in my heart to follow God's will for my life and become the Godly woman He designed me to be! It can sometimes be a struggle with outside influences saying, "don't do that for him....make him do it....he can do that himself", but when I listen to my heart, it is out of love and respect that I do what I do. Love and respect for my husband and love and respect for my Creator! He made me specifically for this purpose...to be a helper, a homemaker, a caretaker, a wife, a mother!

See, I will never be JUST anything....I will be their doctor when they're sick, their chauffeur when they go places, their referee when there is a battle, their maid (I use this term loosely, lol) when things need cleaned, their cook when they need to eat, their teacher when they need to learn, their mentor when they need advise and their example when they need someone to look up to. I will never be JUST anything........I will be EVERYTHING! Why you ask....because this is my God-given responsibility, my calling.....my legacy. Did I do enough with the time He has given me here on earth? Only time will tell but while I am here, I will do my best to be everything more than....just!