All the Good Things

            Sometimes it is good to keep busy.  If I feel so overwhelmed with all the stuff to accomplish that by my response to it, others are burdened, I need to change my perspective.

            Having my daughter and knowing children like songs, I looked up on you-tube some old fun children’s songs from “Salty the Singing Songbook” whose music I used to listen to as a child.  There was a song I came across that I remembered and that I really liked the tune to.  The lyrics are really nice as well and are a good source to support the message in this entry.  The song is “How I Want to Be, Lord, Just Like You.”  A couple phrases of the lyrics are “How I Want to be, Lord, just like You… And all the good things that I want to do” and “when You give You peace and You share Your joy, and You show Your love, oh Lord, how I want to be like You.”

            If I change my perspective from thinking all the stuff I have to do is a burden, burdening others with a stressful attitude, to thinking of them as good things I’m doing to help me be like Jesus, I will look forward to each task with a smile.  I will know that by it, I am “singing” to Jesus, how I want to be like Him, and sometimes I really have sung it when I do my work. 

            Other times, it’s not good to be busy, and those times are being with family and on the day of rest.  But those are good things to do, too.

Making the House More Livable

            I really feel that if I make my house more livable, the things I want to accomplish for my man, I will be able to accomplish more easily.  If I can accomplish them more easily, I can accomplish them more quickly and with just about zero frustration!  So, over two weeks ago, I began the mission.  I had a tentative goal by the end of that week to make our house more livable—the places for the items I use in the kitchen to be in places so that when they are needed, they can be grabbed easily.  I moved items around in the cupboard in the bathroom, so that the items used daily there are more accessible.  I organized the clothes in our closet so that locating what should be worn on a day is not frustrating!  I organized our diaper changing station, clearing the clutter out of that zone.

            By the end of last week, things were more organized (the house was more livable).  I wanted to post this a time ago but didn’t feel it (or me!) was ready!  A spot that is supposed to be normally very useful was not because of clutter.  Well, I have since, moved these items into a bag, and I plan to go through them and organize.

I am happy to make the house more livable because I see that it is staying within God’s favor.  God says in His Word in Ephesians 5:16 to redeem the time and that can be done easily when the house is more organized.  I feel that clearing out the clutter of what could slow me down is dedicating my house and life to serving my family.  I have thrown recently, a project that I began before I was married, a project which would take an extreme amount of dedication, and I am planning to give the time I had for the project to serving my family instead!  I hope that you are encouraged to dedicate more of yourself to your man!