Do you ever feel like your day is just a looong series of one hurdle after the other? When you get up in the morning, have you ever looked ahead to the next 14-16 hours (or more) and find them full of just one event after the other: like school runs, dentist appointments, piano lessons, grocery shopping, soccer practice, job stuff, laundry, cleaning toilets, dishes, cooking, etc.? Yikes! I’m sometimes exhausted before I even get out of bed in the morning. You? Sometimes, being a mom is like running a race everyday. We arise at the starting line and just take off at the sound of the alarm clock. Then throughout the day, I am jumping over hurdle after hurdle – running kids around, feeding family and friends, kissing boo-boos, until finally I hit the end of the day’s race for the final hurdle, bedtime. I got to thinking about how I approach my daily hurdle race. Here’s what I discovered: I’m not doing so “hott”. No. I must admit, the prospect of running another day all over town and … [Read more...]
The Daily – Clumsy and Failing Daily
I find myself in the muck far too often. I often feel like such a failure. I ask myself daily if I am an idiot to think I can minister to anyone when I am by no means an example. I mean just when I think I am finally finding some victory, the rug is yanked out from under me and I am thrown into the middle of a battle I was not prepared for. I am quite clumsy spiritually speaking and fail daily... I try to find comfort in the Word... For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again... Proverbs 24:16a Only to hear the voice in my head reminding me of... Last night's rude comment to my husband just after writing a devotional for wives..."oh what a hypocrite you are", I hear ringing in my ears... And how I didn't follow through on a commitment last week... Or reminding me how many times I failed over the past week... Again, I search the Word for comfort... But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all … [Read more...]
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