Ever have a day when you’re ready to say, “enough already”? Let me get super honest here and simply say … that has been my life for the last few weeks.
Not a good motto if you ask anyone, but this is very much a reality for more moms than just me, so I can’t very well overlook it can I?
After doing an entire room full of laundry (and you think I’m exaggerating), cleaning every room and making more meals and snacks than I care to think about, I look around me and find that it immediately has to be done again … it is in fact as bad or worse than when I started. Sure, I make the boys help, but sometimes it’s just too much!
I simply don’t know anyone who wouldn’t be discouraged by that! It does seem to be a particular phenomenon for moms though.
For instance… if my hubby went to work every day, but found that over the course of a year he was still working on the exact same project he had started at the beginning of the year and was no further along I don’t think he’d continue in that line of work.
It takes a very particular kind of patience, love and longsuffering even, to do the “mom” job. Time to go get some help.
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us (Hebrews 12:1)
Is it really that simple? Yet it says it right there “lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us”. I like the way the Message phrases some of verse 2 [Jesus] “never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way”.
There it is, the basic problem … I am living in the here and now, not even thinking about the big picture. I am a detail person, those little things, yes those things, they drive me nuts! I forget what it’s all about, I forget where I’m headed, so I forget to deal with the bumps in the road along the way!
So, for all of you moms who are dealing a little too much with the here and now these days, look ahead toward the finish line and the true point of it all and maybe, just maybe today won’t seem so endless or pointless.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:33 am 1
I can totally relate to this post Shera! I have been there done that several times this summer. And yet, I am still sad that summer vacation is coming to an end. Then I try and look at the grand scheme of things and put it into perspective. Thanks for the reminder!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:01 am 2
Yes! I was trying to explain this to my husband recently; it’s incredibly frustrating how the “mom duties” are never accomplished. There is never a true feeling of satisfaction because the same task will have to accomplished in a matter of days.
Thank you for the reminders from Hebrews. I needed that today.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:05 pm 3
I am with you 100%
August 15th, 2008 at 8:11 am 4
Right on!
August 16th, 2008 at 6:42 am 5
I’m with ya! I feel the same way a lot of the time. Thanks for your words and reminder to not focus just on the day, but the bigger picture.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:17 pm 6
Thank you so much for sharing these encouraging words with us. It’s hard to admit that I’m often in that “enough already” place. I so appreciate your words and your honesty.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pm 7
Great post! :o)
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 pm 8
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I really needed to hear that. There is nothing like encouragement from another mom who has “been there..done that.”