Posted in God Speaks
Well, 4 Kleenex boxes, 9 fresh lemons, 15 oz. lemon juice concentrate, 6 frozen cans of OJ, 64 oz of honey, 6 cans of chicken noodle soup, one pot homemade chicken soup, endless hours of sleep, one trip to the Thai restaurant for HOT spicy soup, and lots of cough drops later, I can say that we are finally on the mend LOL!!!! I believe I came down with a week long flu that just about did me in. I still sound like Hermit the Frog & I am complaining like Miss Piggy. There really ought to be a law about mothers being sick at home with very healthy children at the same time -- boys no less who think taking care of poor sick mom is giving her a PB&J while turning the TV louder. Although, they came down with it shortly after I did, so we all were a bunch of sickos, groaning and moaning together in wretched pity.
And now, that I am feeling a tad better, as is usual with my life, everything has rear-ended each other and it is all happening at the same time -- and no, I didn't plan it that way. If you want to complain check with the calendar executive in charge of 2008 because whoever it was did the same thing to us poor moms at easter with back-to-back scheduling of events! Next week is our annual homeschool convention and I was planning to take the week I was sick to go over some of the new goals and plans for the next school year and really take a look at what I might need curriculum wise. Now I know that homeschool convention isn't the ‘end all’ of the planning but fooyie! that just isn't how I wanted things to go LOL I guess that isn't how G-d wanted it to go either.
So now my house needs a major Clorox evacuation of germs and a through cleaning -- yeah right -- like it was just so neat and tidy before I got sick LOL. Well, now it truly needs it! and it is perfect timing for getting ready to celebrate Passover. Of course that got me to thinking...
Our family is not Jewish, we are Christians who on some crazy turn of the street, much like the poor little Mouse Who Wanted a Cookie, lead us to celebrating Passover. But each year that we have celebrated Passover we have come closer to understanding what G-d did for us and what He wants for us, so we continue. I'm sure the first year G-d giggled at how we celebrated because we made so many mistakes and we did not do everything that was required. This year is no exception because in years past we have not removed "every crumb of leavening" from the house. We just celebrated Passover without that aspect. Well, the condition of my house after this awful flu got me thinking about how this dirty house is making me so grumpy and irritated. How this house could use a clutter-free zone and how I really need to let go of a few things and then the light bulb went off. How many things in our lives are just like the leavening that G-d asks us to remove from our homes? How many things do we have or do that are either displeasing to G-d, or simply get between us and G-d because they keep us distracted or too busy to focus on Him? My clutter is filling up the empty spaces in our lives, so that there is no room left to hear the voice of G-d. Okay granted we have been sick but I could see past that and while I might not be able to remove all the leavening by Passover, I know that this is the lesson I was to learn for this Passover season that probably wouldn't have been learned had I not gotten sick.
G-d is sooooo GOOD!!
So, in the next two weeks I have the spring cleaning, school year planning, 4 days HS convention, 2 of my ds birthdays, soccer games & tournaments and end of the season parties, and Passover. But I will also be considering if the things around me and the things I do, bring me closer to G-d or if they are just "leavening" I need to search out and get rid of? My prayer is that you don't have to get sick to learn this lesson too.
Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. Exodus 13:7 (NKJ)
