This morning in my RELAXED bible study by Megan Fate Marshman, I was faced with this question [the homework is about submitting our ways to God as it relates to money]:
“Tell a short story about the most satisfying work that you’ve ever done in your life.”
Within .5 seconds, a smile spread across my face, and I started writing…..
“My days began with bed-head all around and pajamas for a couple of hours. Cutting up pancakes, listening to their jabbering, wiping down sticky hands and cheeks. There were books and blocks, time for painting or teaching abc’s and 123’s. We walked the neighborhood looking for pretty leaves or pointing out puffy clouds. Lunch and laundry. Naps and snuggles. Tears and boo-boos. Singing and dancing. And so many words.”
It was the most exhausting work in the best of ways. I wouldn’t change a thing. Do I sometimes feel like I’m floundering in this new season with mostly-grown kids? Yes. Slowly, but surely I am finding my footing though.
Proverbs 3:26 says, “For the Lord will be your confidence (translates ‘at your side’) and will keep your foot from being caught.”
As I write these words in a quaint coffee shop, sipping hot coffee in between bites of quiche, the girls are in college and Mack is working his way through his senior year; we are all worlds away from the sticky bites of pancakes, but there is One who is with us still—our precious friend, Jesus. I’m so grateful for the gift of His presence in every season. Just as the Lord was with me in those years of young motherhood, He will be with me in this new, (ahem) mature season of motherhood—one step at a time.
