Friday and oh how thankful I am for this day. It has been a long week with sick little ones, juggling school and house chores and life in the midst of it all.
I wake to a dirty kitchen.....an assignment given to my 2 youngest with the the supervison on my 19 year old. BUT the dishes are high, the counters have food and all I can do is wait for them to wake so they can start what they didn't do last night.
So today I read pages 110-112 in my small cute devotional "One thousand gift by Ann Voskamp" a sweet gift my close and special friend Jeanine gifted me for my birthday.
Manna the very thing we don't like to get....a sick relative, a hard unfair job, depression, anxiety or financial struggles and sometime death.
She shares how a family she knows buries their 2nd son of a genetic disease and how the dad response was...."Just that maybe....maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what the different ending holds."
" Maybe....I guess....it's accepting there are things we simple don't understand. But HE does."
This make me think of my life and how so many times I have wanted things to change but have prayed for Gods will and they have stayed the same....now I see that I don't want to change the ending and I want it to be Gods way.
So as I start my Friday with little ones, homeschooling and house chores....I STOP and thank God for today for all of it....illness, jobs, mental illness and financial struggles that all keep me on my knees and looking up!
Manna Grace
Jessie
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