January. Post-holiday blues, slumps, overwhelm...needy tiny people, piles of laundry, meals to be prepped, again...The Devil wants us to ruminate on our weaknesses and that's how he keeps us down and pulls us away from our Loving Savior.
How many times this past year did I get stuck only seeing my weaknesses? My short fuse, inconsistent parenting, personal development and personal discipline are areas that I constantly see myself falling short. But if all I do is see my failures, where does that leave me? Frustrated, full of excuses and self-pity and in the same spot.
These are the moments that I need to RUN to my Savior.
His tender heart wants to pick me up and carry me by the elevator of His love, as St. Therese says. I don't need to keep climbing that staircase. I need to reach out for grace! Hear my cries, Lord, and in my littleness and all my broken failings, transform my nature to move mountains for your glory. I can't but You can. How many times have You been victorious in me because I said, please Lord, I need your help! That's where my wins are. Not in any perfect schedule I create, but in my humility to start again.
Give me eyes, Lord, to see opportunities to submit my broken will and nature to what is best for my spouse, children, and even myself. Give me eyes to see those moments and ears to hear the Holy Spirit calling me to say yes. Give me fortitude, to keep starting anew each day.
Each day I wake and pray, thank you Lord!
Each day I have a healthy body to exercise and grow stronger, thank you Lord!
Each day I use my creativity, intelligence and teaching to share the wonder of your world with my children, thank you Lord!
Each day I breathe deeply and respond in tenderness and love, thank you Lord!
Each day I plan beautiful meals that nourish us, thank you Lord!
Each day I pick up, sort, fold, put away, organize and clean our home, I thank you Lord.
Each night I get to bless and pray, hold and tuck in my children as they go to sleep, I thank you Lord.
"When we are weak, He is strong!"
