Mom Heart Moments #141

A large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

ONE SUMMER, we had sixty-two nights of overnight guests. That meant weeks on end of kids giving up their beds, washing stacks and stacks of dishes, laundering loads of sheets and towels, babysitting other children. One day, when one of my children looked out the window and saw a strange car drive up, he said, “Quick, everyone hide, and maybe no one will see us and want to come in!” I realized at this point, my kids needed a rest and a break from so much work!

One morning that summer, I got up at six to have a quiet time and a half-hour walk. Before I’d even settled into my chair, Nathan, who was preparing to leave for work, called up to me and said, “Hey, you wanna have eggs with me, and then we can talk? You make them, and I will eat them!”

When we finished, I realized it was time to awaken Joy and make her breakfast, as she is helping with the three-to-five-year-olds at VBS. Then Joel came in and said, “I will go shopping for you if you make a list.”

As I got Joel and Joy out the door, Clay came in and said, “We really need to make a decision about some ministry issues.” Forty minutes later, he left for work, so I took a walk in the heat rather than the cool, as the sun was fully risen by that time!

The moment I stepped in the door from taking the dog out, Sarah came in and said, “Can I just have a few moments of your time?” By then, it was almost eleven, and my whole morning had been taken up by everyone else. I had gotten none of my own plans accomplished —yet I’d done what I truly was supposed to do.

When this type of craziness happens in your life, do you see it as interruption or redirection? How might reframing it change your attitude?