By Mary
Surprise, surprise, it's me writing for a change! Typically a long absence in writing for me means I just haven't found a way to manage my time to allow for things like blogging...it's often pretty low on the list of things I could do in the evenings after the kids' bedtime. Usually during the day some idea will float through my head, something I'd like to write about later, and I try to file it away in my memory and hope it doesn't get lost somewhere in the midst of mom brain. But these last months the inspiration just hasn't been there. Until one night last week during bedtime when I just felt worn out. And I tried to think of a way to describe it.
Overwhelmed didn't suit...I felt perfectly capable of doing the whole bedtime routine. There are quite a few teeth to brush in our house, several sets of pajamas to be put on, a couple of sensitive skins needing lotion, bedtime stories and snuggles waiting to be had. And none of its hard. There are just times when I'm so tired of doing it. Every day.
I have another confession too: sometimes I'm so tired of feeding people! And this is coming from someone who's husband deeply loves going out to eat, so it's not just meal preparation that gets to me. I really probably have less right to complain than most. It's just these hungry little tummies that are always, well, hungry.
And that night last week is when the perfect word came to mind to describe my feeling in these moments. Weary. But immediately that word triggered another thought in my mind-
2nd Thessalonians 3:13 "But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good."
Usually I think of this verse when it comes to extra stuff. Service projects outside the home, for others. Helping at church. Not so much the daily necessities of life. But of course it holds just as true for the snotty noses and the afternoon snacks and the dishes and the baths and the laundry. Or for carving out time to read the bible or take a shower.
Lets not grow weary in doing good, daily, in every way, for Him, for us, for those around us.
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017
big changes
by Alanna
It's pretty incredible how long it's been since I've written a life update on here. Not sure if anyone much reads our blog anyway, but here goes.
We had a new baby =) Born April 2nd at 4:12 a.m. weighing 7 lb. 1 oz. He turns two months old today, and loves to smile. He started sleeping through the night and rolling over at six weeks, and so far is a gem of a baby. He likes to be around people and have attention, and it is so easy to make him happy. He is our third, and our oldest turned two and a half just last month. Life is crazy but I feel sure I was made to live this way- in the crazy. I need Jesus more than I ever previously realized, and it is a good place to be. (I try to remind myself of this on the hardest days).
We are working on moving up to Minnesota. My husband didn't get accepted to seminary, but we are moving anyway in the hopes of plugging into the church up there. That church sends out a lot of missionaries, and they encouraged us to apply to their seminary again. So in some ways it feels like a first step to the mission field, but in some ways like a scary unknown. So my husband has been working lots, fixing up his mom's house to get it ready to sell. She moved in with us yesterday. We are hoping to buy a house together with her in the Minneapolis area. So there are all these big changes coming up. I have always expected to move away from my family, to live as a missionary in another country. But moving across the country feels hard and scary, and I don't feel quite ready to leave behind the people here. So I am praying that God will give me the perspective of this as a grand adventure. Of joyous expectation for what God has for us there in the north. Maybe new people to love on, new ministry to do as a family, a new church.
One thing I know for sure is that in all the changes, God is sovereign. He knows better than me; He has a plan, and that "He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?"
It's pretty incredible how long it's been since I've written a life update on here. Not sure if anyone much reads our blog anyway, but here goes.
We had a new baby =) Born April 2nd at 4:12 a.m. weighing 7 lb. 1 oz. He turns two months old today, and loves to smile. He started sleeping through the night and rolling over at six weeks, and so far is a gem of a baby. He likes to be around people and have attention, and it is so easy to make him happy. He is our third, and our oldest turned two and a half just last month. Life is crazy but I feel sure I was made to live this way- in the crazy. I need Jesus more than I ever previously realized, and it is a good place to be. (I try to remind myself of this on the hardest days).
We are working on moving up to Minnesota. My husband didn't get accepted to seminary, but we are moving anyway in the hopes of plugging into the church up there. That church sends out a lot of missionaries, and they encouraged us to apply to their seminary again. So in some ways it feels like a first step to the mission field, but in some ways like a scary unknown. So my husband has been working lots, fixing up his mom's house to get it ready to sell. She moved in with us yesterday. We are hoping to buy a house together with her in the Minneapolis area. So there are all these big changes coming up. I have always expected to move away from my family, to live as a missionary in another country. But moving across the country feels hard and scary, and I don't feel quite ready to leave behind the people here. So I am praying that God will give me the perspective of this as a grand adventure. Of joyous expectation for what God has for us there in the north. Maybe new people to love on, new ministry to do as a family, a new church.
One thing I know for sure is that in all the changes, God is sovereign. He knows better than me; He has a plan, and that "He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?"
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