09/21/13

Has it seriously been a month since I have been on here?

Sorry.

"MIA" is my middle name as of late.

I talked about this at the beginning of school this year in this blog post:  Do Hard Things.  Feel free to re-read/read to refresh your memory.


"Do Hard Things" has become a mantra in my head. 

It is easier to complain (myself included here) than to go out and do it.... whatever "it" may be.

I am being challenged by the Lord daily to get out of a mode of complaining and into a mode of getting something accomplished, whether it is hard or not.

It has also been something I have been using with Wesley and Mikayla.

The Scriptures are full of people who did hard things... with God.

Our society in general today is not expecting as much as did our generations previously.

Whereas children aged 6-11 were working full time in fields and cooking/learning about living life, we now just want children to play without responsibilities.  We don't want things to be "too hard" for them.  We don't want them to face hardships.  We hate it when a project or homework overrides any "fun."

How do we expect our children to grow into adults who can cling to the Lord during the hard times if we do everything for them?

How can we expect our children to mature and grow if no struggling occurs and they do not learn how to work through hard things?

God's Creation is full of wonderful examples of this!

Just as a butterfly has to struggle out of its chrysalis to be able to fly, so to do we need struggling times so that we will be stronger for it and "fly" to give glory to the Lord.



Here are some ways the Lord has been showing me to do my best to glorify Him, even in the hard things:

I am a teacher but homework stinks sometimes.

Do Hard Things.

I don't want to add another thing to my plate of work.

Do Hard Things.

Why do we have to do another project?

Do Hard Things.

My house looks like a tornado struck.

Do Hard Things.

How am I going to fit that in with teaching and being a Mom/Wife?

Do Hard Things.

I am expecting my precious ones to help clean the entire house even though they have other things they want to do.

Do Hard Things

I just got bit by fire ants, have taken Benadryl and now have to run a cross country meet.  

(actually happened this past week...)

Do Hard Things 

(and he did and got an excellent time)

Every night I have to work on school things for teaching... I am weary.

Do Hard Things.

You mean I have to get up in front of kids when I feel like staying in bed?

Do Hard Things.

You get the point.


 

The other side of the point is this:  BALANCE.

You still need time to refresh and rejuvenate yourself.... especially time with the Lord.  He alone is Who gives you what it will take to "Do Hard Things."

Don't believe Satan's lies that you can't.

Don't give in to his lies of saying your children can't do hard things.

Believe with God's Strength that you CAN and your children CAN do hard things.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.