Nov. 21, 2008 - OUR NECESSITY FOR ROUTINE

We leave for Houston in three days. Slowly the tasks are coming off the to-do list. The house is emptier and the stacks of boxes in the garage continue to grow. As treasured possessions make their way into boxes, the children seem to get more ... well annoying. I always wondered how moms could be so anxious to send their blessings back to school after Christmas or Summer Break. Today I caught a glimpse of that feeling. Oh, I am not wanting to send them off to school. I am just looking forward to a routine again. It seems that I have spent my years as a mother with conflicting love/hate feelings when it comes to schedules. All to often I view my schedule as a taskmaster that keeps me from having the "real fun" in life. It is boring to follow the same list of tasks day after day, week after week. Or so my fleshly desires try to convince me. The truth is though that these tasks that I am all to quick to groan about are the assignments given to me by Adonai. These are the very heart of fulfilling the roles that He has given me. That schedule that I like to complain about is what keeps me completing my God-given duties.  So as I watch my children running in the house, climbing on furniture and in general looking for a trip to the emergency room, I realize how important routine is for them too. It helps them prepare to take on their God-given tasks. It also gives them a purpose for their day and with this purpose they spend the day producing instead of passively watching TV or playing computer games followed with bouts of bouncing off the walls.

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