Bringing in the Big Gun

I clean the kitchen floor, only to have the kids come home with messy shoes. I get all the laundry done only to have clothes thrown in the hamper at the end of the day. When I work hard at being a good mom, I tend to neglect my friends. If I hone up my Bible study lesson in the morning before study time, my kids get cereal for breakfast. When I have lunch with a friend, I miss my husband at mid day. As soon as I start the dishwasher, someone puts a glass in the sink. When I go out with my husband, I leave my kids home by themselves. As I work on a blog post, the living room stays cluttered.

When I try to do it all I end up an emotional heap at the end of the day, yearning for my bed and quiet, feeling like a failure because I haven't accomplished what I hoped.

I can't do it all. Don't I know it!!

"We leave something incomplete everyday, whether it's an area of housework, school, work, friendship, ministry ~ because we are finite."

~ from The Hidden Art of Homemaking by Edith Schaeffer~

No one had to spell that one out for me!

But I have to keep reminding myself even though I am finite, my God, the One who lives inside me, is not. Though I can only do so much, my God can take my efforts and multiply them like loaves and fish. He promises to make something of my measly human offerings.

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. . .For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Can I get a WHOOP, WHOOP?! There's hope for us, people! We are not left to ourselves. Hallelujah, amen sister, and praise the Lord!

I can't do it all, but when I can't, HE can. And really, don't you think He'd do a better job anyway?

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