Truth for Today

Discouraging Thought: My job as mommy is so tiring, often feeling never ending.

Encouraging Truth: "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9

Loving Instruction: "[An excellent wife] looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness." - Proverbs 31:28

Our Reward: "Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her." - Proverbs 31:28

Today was a morning of weariness. After the routine of getting cups, bottle, and breakfast ready, getting all three munchkins out of bed, and then getting them all changed and dressed, I looked around the house. The living room was already drenched with toys, books, dirty laundry, clean laundry, blankets and pacifiers. The kitchen needed to be tended. Cleaning projects started the night before needed to be finished. Oh, a baby already needs changed again . . . Then this thought entered my mind: no matter how many toys I pick up, diapers I change, noses I wipe, dishes I wash, and how much laundry I fold, there will always be more. Obviously, at some point, the diapers will disappear (Lord-willing), all my children will be well, and there will be no more toys to pick up. Wait a minute - no more toys. I don't know what I'll do when I have no more toys to pick up! No more toys that play that tinny, electronic music. No more toys that tiny, chubby fingers smack and bang on the floor. At some point those fingers will be e-mailing and texting friends, and I'll long for the days that are mine now. So I will cherish these days of tiny chubby fingers, often sticky, clutching my neck, not wanting to be put down. I will cherish these days of never-ending laundry and dishes; I'm sure it will be much less fun to fold clothes three times the size they are now and cook for three hungry teenagers. God has given me a pretty cool job today - caring for three very fun (and cute) little people who think I'm the most wonderful person in the world.