This picture makes me feel better about myself!! So what do you do when you look around and are overwhelmed at the normal stuff, the Christmas stuff, the new stuff... the toddler stuff? Of course, you decide that everyone needs to switch bedrooms. Duh! It was time to reevaluate who shared which room with whom... THAT was a fun conversation! (??)
Yes, that just happened. You'd think 6 people in a 2,000 sq. ft. house wouldn't be an issue considering there are people under bridges doing just fine not too far from here ("just fine" - not really but...) Well, we've got issues and lots of them in the forms of the following:
*Naked Barbies with matted hair and one boot
*cars with three wheels
*blah blah blah... you get the point.
It's ridiculous and we need to rent a dumpster. I know I'm not alone here - we all have too much crap. In our family we also have a certain member who shall remain nameless (CHIP) who likes to collect things... I'll leave it at that. (stupid dumb Star Wars...) Now I'm done.
SO... I got boxes out of the garage, labeled several "donate", "keep" and "throw away"... then I shut the doors and am praying that things happen in those rooms. Meanwhile I deal with a toddler who wants fish sticks like five minutes ago AND the ache in my heart for the sweet crooning of Christmas to not go away just yet.
This verse has been going through my head constantly for about a week: "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. ~Isaiah 26:2-4. Not "pretty good" peace but PERFECT peace. There are SO many things that threaten to occupy my mind and DO if I let them - finances, relationships, emotionally charged "battles" that are not mine to fight...even thinking about the future.
I think too often we pray for peace about things in our lives AS we think about them... Peaces comes as our minds are FIXED on Him instead - not tinkering constantly in what's going on around us. (Peter sank when he took his eyes off Jesus) I don't want to sink!
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
