I am having a down day. I look around my home and am overwhelmed with how many messes and how much work surrounds me. It takes SO MUCH effort just to keep things with some slight semblance of order. I feel like I have to be constantly picking up, cleaning, instructing the kids, cooking, doing laundry...did I say picking up? I feel like I can just ignore the clutter that accumulates for a few hours and it is overwhelming. Why are we all so messy? Some days it all seems so futile. I know that everything that I clean right now will probably be just as dirty again in a matter of hours (if not minutes!) As soon as I am done with one meal, I am on to planning the next. I can work diligently getting all the clothes in the laundry room washed and put away, but as soon as I turn around, there is a new pile of dirty clothes awaiting me. It never ends; I can never get ahead. I have things I would love to accomplish - great ambitions, but I feel like I am too busy doing the mundane over and over and over to even think about doing more.
I don't always feel this way. There are days when I feel like I could take on the world. I have been trying to figure out he secret to those days because feeling like I do now is no fun. I think much of it has to do with how I am physically feeling. I mentioned last week that I have been fighting a cold and allergies. I am tired and my head and body ache. I feel like I don't have the luxury of just being sick and resting. So, how does one get past this feeling and drive through it? This truly forces me to rely on God's strength because I truly don't have much on my own..
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13
I pray for God to show me the eternal camouflaged in the mundane, the purpose in the redundant. I know in my heart that it exists. Sometimes it is just so hard to see it.
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