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Learning Life…… one day at a time…….

I’m doing a study about making time for sabbath in my life.  We all can get so caught up in the go go go and busy life.  For me I get crazy days sometimes like yesterday with very little (if any) down time.  When more than one kid is sick or not doing well it takes a toll and I’m busy just with them. Only one Mama and 6 of them.  So grateful for the much needed nap time during the day so I can try to get my quiet time with Him that I need in order to fill up so I can better be there for my kids and Brian.  Right now we have a lot going on.  Adam, Luke, Gideon, Titus and Annie Mae are all dealing with asthma like coughs/ allergies and some ear infections & some with sore throats.  Titus has been extra needy and clingy because he’s just not himself.  Annie Mae isn’t well either with needing the treatments and those make her so edgy and wiggly.  Thankful for our baby swing which she does enjoy to drift off when she’s like that.  Been lots of tears and boogars lately! My dad still in the home in Santa Paula, that weighs heavy on my heart as well.  He’s not doing the best.  However, I see little glimpses of Pop come out at times and I’m grateful for that.  Issues with Brian’s work loom over me too, and house projects.  For me just keeping up with the house and doing what needs to get done also is a struggle.

I like to be neat.  I like to keep everything clean. Like I’m to the extreme, to where I feel like things need to STAY that way.  Ha ha! What am I thinking???!?!?! Six kids, and a neat house?!? Well….. I’m learning to LET IT GO some at least! Well, I’m trying to.  I’m trying to make margin in my life.  Learning to BREATHE and just not worry about house things as much, but focus more on the kids and making memories with them or doing stuff with Brian.  House stuff can wait! Its a constant battle with me though and will be a temptation for life I’m sure of it.

We have to learn to say NO to things too.  Even good things.  The kids were all sick a couple Sunday’s ago and we all stayed home.  Did home church together.  I must say… one of our better times.  Great lesson together and then we all had time to just take a break and have our own time with God.  Time to just Breathe and not have anything else to do but be together and enjoy what God had put before us.

Me, taking time with Him while Annie Mae slept in the swing and the boys were coughing in the other room!


“Margin gives time for us to breathe in and out- stilling ourselves in the presence of God and allowing all the things which have hustled our attention to be cast aside in favor of a purposeful look at our God.  Sabbath dulls down the noisiness of our ever-pulsating activities, invites us to refocus our attention on HIs character, and all He has done for us.  It helps us be thankful.  It gives us space…. to worship.  It keeps us from squeezing the Giver our of the gift.”
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