Good morning world! I have been awake since 4:30. Woke up to the dogs barking. Sill not sure what that was all about. Just could not go back to sleep. So I checked facebook, the weather, and the news. Then prayed for a while. Not sure why else I was wide awake.
I am so excited to report that I completely finished my weekly work for yesterday. Unless something was not put into the mending pile, or set aside to be ironed, it was done. Okay, I just found something of mine that was on my dresser that needs mended, I am working on it now. The piles of mending and ironing are gone. And the funny thing is most of it was mine, in both piles.
I was thinking yesterday as I was mending not one but 2 aprons and ironing 4 of them, that I will take care of everyone else and their stuff, and I am last. However, I was not feeling bitter or neglected or angry. I was feeling grateful and blessed. This is a great change from the martyr syndrome I have had in the past. You know the "I have to do EVERYTHING or it doesn't get done" or "If I don't pick it up, it will stay there FOREVER because you know MOM will do it."
This is my ministry. My way of blessing my family. Now I did not have supper ready when Patrick got home because he brought it home. After spending a good deal of the day mending and ironing, I went out to work in the garden for a few hours. I completely forgot to put anything in the crock pot. Patrick was so sweet and understanding.
Today is menu planning and deep cleaning the kitchen and bathroom. AND more time in the garden.
27 "She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness." Proverbs 31:27 NIV
Be blessed and be a blessing,
Just some of my thoughts and actions,
Elizabeth
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