Okay ladies, I’m coming after us. Many young women dream of their wedding day and being a wife and in due time being a mom. We take these roles in life very serious and when the big day comes we put on our “game face” and off we go to be the best wife and eventually mother in the whole world. Unfortunately husbands and kids don’t come with a set of directions and no one explained the complicated intricacies of the male species. Oh my, they don’t think or respond like us at all. It doesn’t compute! Most of us don’t understand what we married. Then we have shorter versions of the two kinds and the road gets boulder-eee. That may not be a word but rocky just didn’t cut it. Can I get a witness?
Erma Bombeck once advised not to let the children out number the adults in the family. Unfortunately by the time I read that we had four kids and Coach Wonderful was out on a football field day and night. It is in the realities of living life that women can find themselves stuck in the “game face” mode. Serious about every phase of family life, over loaded with responsibilities, determined to do it all right, while being organized, efficient, high energy and a lovely woman of God. And getting it all done in 24 hour segments over and over again. The results can produce moments of ugly that pile up on each other and hit the fan with such velocity that disbursement can be life threatening to the husband and kids. Not a pretty picture - certainly not part of that youthful dream. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
If you are stopping right now and whispering to yourself, wow, what happened to me Lord? God has brought you to a place of change – remove your “game face”. Take in a deep cleansing breath then let it out slowly - you are normal and you are in His care. Your heart was always in the right place. Without the trials, struggles and hardships that bring us to the feet of Jesus the dross in our hearts can never be removed. Dance in the palm of His hand. Drink in the joy of the Lord and let Him transform, heal and renew the beautiful you. Allow Psalm 51:10 to be your prayer: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a loyal spirit within me.”
When God decides a matter,
The first place He will start
Is not upon the circumstance -
He looks upon the heart.
(part of a poem reflecting I Samuel 16:7b)
A pearl to string: Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
May we all be an outward reflex of an inner life dedicated to Jesus,
Lyndi
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