So today God filled me in on the fact that I have the choice to survive or thrive! Yes you heard that correctly -- it is up to me. Wow I have to take responsibility for it -- sometimes that is no fun - it is so much easier to blame it on someone else.
I want to thrive! I am not going to spend the summer in survival mode like I have the past three days. My kids are at each others throats - bickering about every single thing. You say black - no its white, you say tab they say no its tab -- they are doing this with eachother, with me, with my husband and sometimes even with grandma. Just the past three days - the first 10 days of summer break was awesome - I was so excited and thought wow this is going to be a fun and relaxing summer. Hold the phone - monday morning it was like a wildfire had roared through the house - grumpy, mouthy and down right irritable children - which doesn't necessarily make for a joyful mom.
So today in the midst of a conversation with my hairstylist (Erin:) about another whole issue I said out loud "I am the problem and I am the solution". Well tonight after dinner the kids were crabby and I got crabby and then I remembered (ok no, the holy spirit reminded me) what I had said about the other thing and it totally applies here.
Time for me to step up and be acountable for my joy! Time to dig in to the word and into the spiritual disciplines!
I am going to thrive this summer and I will not settle for just surviving. We have an awesome God who can do so much more than I can imagine and I know he is the one to nourish me!!!!!
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There it is! That's the red hair I married!
Love you :*
I am there and I am with you> I am on that same journey this summer. Survival mode is not good enough, they deserve more from me and I want to give that to them. When I am short or think that I can't remind them one more time. I remember how many times my father does that for me over my 34 years of life so far and I still mess up. He will help us use our sole and not our flesh when we ask him for that guidance along with connecting with him daily always helps me out on the right foot. May God continue to bless us with your words;)Jill
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