This evening I was feeling tired and wondering what in the heck I actually accomplished today. Ever have days where you wonder if you did anything that matters? I put the toys away, took them back out, washed the dishes, got them dirty, mopped the floor, watched pears go flying down onto it and read the same book about monkeys 17 times. I clean the house up at the end of the day, knowing it starts all over again at 7:30 tomorrow morning.
Sometimes it's easy for me to look around at what everyone else is doing and think that I don't do anything important. I spend my time at home, saying "no, no" two hundred times a day and changing diapers.
I read this post a few minutes ago and was so encouraged by the quote in it and convicted that I need to stop looking around--at the mess, at others, at me--and keep my focus upward. I am doing what God has called me to and it is such an amazing privilege that He would entrust me with such a precious gift--Jack--to enjoy, instruct and care for. What I do matters. A lot. Not based on my own merit, not maybe to the culture around me, but because it matters to God. He is working in me and through me. I can change diapers and wash dishes for His glory! How cool is that?!
-- Post From My iPhone
2 comments:
Hey Mindy! Just thought I would drop by and let you know I enjoy reading your blog :) especially the friday posts.
This post in particular made me think of a quote from John & Stasi Eldredge's book Captivating.
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute.”
-G. K. Chesterton
I am not a mom of course, but I hope to be someday and I know it must seem monotonous sometimes, but it is a huge responsibility and a huge job! And I am sure you are doing a wonderful job at it :)
Praying for you today!
Holly J
Aw, thanks so much Holly! Love the quote.
I was just thinking of you the other day--Jen and I were talking about all the stuff we'd all do as kids. Funerals for birds, plays where Dustin was a grandma, playing in your treehouse---so many fun memories!
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