I have been super cranky lately. I've been volunteering quite a bit and maybe a bit more than usual. I've been anxious about my job and changes coming, keeping my projects moving forward so much so that even when I've been there as mom, I haven't been present to the kids because I'm doing something else for someone else. They weren't bad things. They were all good things but not 'mom' things. I let something else take the place of my primary vocation and it made me cranky.
When I realized that all these things I was doing for others was draining the life energy from me and making me a worse mom I said, "I'm done. I can't do this." So I went back to being mom. I played with the kids, talked about what was going on in their world, watched their favorite TV shows with them, and I served them dinner. I was running around getting their hot chocolate made during dinner that my dinner sat. By the time I did get to it, I ended up eating whatever was left and it was blessedly cold. I sat down with a smile on my face and life welling up within me. Why? Because I was doing what God intended.
I hope you have a cold chicken moment today, and I hope I continue to have and treasure them!
May God bless all our cold chicken moments in life.
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