The last two weeks we have been in the full swing of things….and it is kicking our tails. We just can’t seem to catch the rhythm of everything. Hubby and I are both teaching, homeschooling, open houses with English students and just day to day living here (which takes more work.) When I type it out it doesn’t seem so much, but we are feeling it at the moment.
Yesterday, after scrambling to get all the homeschooling done in time to pick up the paper I needed for art class at the orphanage, I forgot to make bread and hang up the laundry. Crazy how forgetting one day of wash (when you don’t have a dryer) can really get you behind. Breakfast with no bread wasn’t pretty either, I might add. This isn’t even mentioning that I totally had to wing art class because I had forgotten that my class was changed to Monday from Tuesday. Sigh. At least I had bought the paint paper!
It’s times like these that I switch into Super Woman mode. I pretend to have it all together even when I know that life is kicking my tail. Maybe if I would run from the kitchen to the laundry I would be able to squeeze in the spelling test I need to give Roo. When it doesn’t work – when my hurried steps don’t get me anywhere faster….then I want to throw up my hands and say I just can’t do it all. {DUH!}
So I have been thinking a lot over the past week – how do I hit a rhythm. Where do I dig when I need an extra something something to do what I am called to do. That’s when I read a simple sentence that made me pause. A coincidence that this verse was the next in my daily reading. Totally not.
“He must become greater; I must become less.” Jn 3:30
I stopped dead in my tracks as the words sunk deeply into my soul.
John the bapt!st was asked how he felt about JC bapt!zing and everyone now following him. I can almost picture him not missing a beat and explaining that “a man can only receive what is given him from heaven.” He explains that his JOY is complete because he has seen JC come and JC is to be greater and himself become less.
I know it doesn’t totally apply to our crazy semester – but then again it does.
How, did John have that attitude about his min and life. I so want that!
In my busy season would that my heart say, ” GREAT. BRING IT ON. I only have what has been given me from heaven and may HE become greater.”
Yup, this semester is kicking our tails – may it be that He is greater as I walk through it.
Casting A Stone 