It's the start of a new week and I have mixed feelings. I feel relief that the major rush of work that we've been doing should be mainly over. We still have things to finish with fixing up a few things on the house, but that shouldn't be too bad. Then it's just a matter of maintaining order and cleanliness. BUT maybe I shouldn't maintain order and cleanliness. In the week + or so that our house has been on the market we've only had 2 calls for showings and only one showed up. Maybe if it's a mess, Murphy's law will kick in and everyone will call!
But we're also preparing that maybe the Lord's timing wasn't now for the move, and we're supposed to wait until the Spring to move. There would be a lot of good things about that as well. So I wait and pray and try not to be impatient with not knowing what God has for us.
I feel like I pushed a little too hard to do too much too soon and my children did feel the stress of it. It's frustrating how I can pray about taking the time for the kids and know everything I need to know in that regard, and then I still think that I should be able to do more than probably should be done and the kids still end up suffering. Oh to truly listen to the Lord and hear him and to obey his voice at all times instead of letting myself and my desires get in the way. So now I relax and enjoy them and wait on God.
Trust and Obey. For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to Trust and Obey.
O Lord, forgive me and help me! Draw me close to you! Help me to love my husband and kids the way I should. Amen.
Melanie | 
• Sun 21 Aug 2005 - That song often pops into my head...
I often times think of a child's perspective of going on a vacation and that is how we are to be in relation to dealing with stress. Planning and preparing for a family trip involves a lot of details, work and orginazation. The only thing our children think of is the fun they are going to have on the trip. Are they worried about anyof the details like if they have enough clothes, money or if the house will get broken into when gone???? No way! They just sit back and "Trust and Obey"......Not a care in the world, knowing that their parents have it all worked out. They know that the vacation is their parent's (God's) responsibility and that they just need to follow orders when told. That is my little visual symbolic picture which helps me get through those "let God work out the details" times.
Jennie von Eggers
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