Let's see...this blogging thing has been very therapeutic for me. It makes me sit and reflect on each day. Even though Erik, Sharon, and my best friend Angel are the only ones who read this :), it's been a form of stress relief for me.
This week I am working on scheduling Tom's May appointments. I only have five more slots to fill!! I am trying to get that done by Friday because we leave for Fine Arts this weekend. That means I have to pack for me and Parker (he's going with us) and then a separate suitcase for Kenters because he is going to Grandma Joan's. We get back late Saturday nite. I'll have just enough time to unpack and get things ready for the next day..our "crazy day'. Sunday morning I have to teach Sunday School, be in Jr. High Church, go to Wheaton to pick up Kent, and then go back to church for Sunday nite's service. Then I have to work every day next week, Tuesday is Bible Study, Wed is church, and then next Friday I leave for a two day trip to Missouri to pick up my sis from Evangel. Then the next weekend is Mother's Day weekend and then the following week we are taking the boys to a water park in the Dells for a few days. Then come graduations, camps, missions trips, weddings, baby showers, Father's Day, My Dad's Birthday, Grandpa's Birthday, our anniversary, Erik's Birthday, and Kent's Birthday....AHHHHH Then comes fall. So much for a relaxing summer! When I think of all that is before us my head spins and my stomach flips.
I am learning to take "one day at a time", but my perfectionistic and choleric personality conflict with that philosophy. I need to follow the psalmist's instruction and literally "be still and know that he is God." I am going to need discipline to find time to be still during these next few months just so I can be reminded of WHO is in control. Proverbs 19:21 says, "many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.". I can go about making all the plans..even into the month of August, but really I need to remember that unless they are God's plans, they are not purposeful nor productive.
I am the follower, not the Leader. Remember that Bethany!
1 comment:
Bethany, Sharon,Erik and Angel aren't the only ones reading. I have been enjoying your "blurbs". I was feeling a little like I was snooping or something so I thought I should get it out in the open and into the light....You are a fantastic wife and mother I couldn't have gotten better daughters than you and Melissa.
Love
Joan
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