I feel like my life has been shot out of a cannon since school has started. Over the last two weeks it’s been a combination of new practices, new routines, school meetings, and over various events that eat up the calendar from sun up until sun down. The lazy days of summer ended in such incredible fashion that the memory of those days in only re-callable with pictures! And it seems to be set to continue like this for some time.
This weekend I have been thinking about these weeks ahead and the ‘business’ that they are filled with and have decided to not be stressed by it. There are so many positive things about to happen as our children discover their own strengths and weaknesses. I can’t imagine the amount of memories that I will gather as a parent observing and challenging those guys. Maybe I am a little crazy, but I have decided that this busyness is life. Oh, sure some of it can be reduced, and lots of it can be managed. But instead of ‘just getting through it’ or trying to find another way, I am going to try to embrace it head on. (This may be the biggest mistake of my life!).
I am starting to think that the things we do each day are not barriers to us living life, but actually are us living life. So today, on this Monday morning the beginning of a week with a schedule that is quite full, I am rejoicing. Not because I am ‘busy’, for there is not doubt I would rather be laying on beach somewhere, but because I am starting a a day that is a gift from the Lord and the number of opportunities that lay ahead of me in this busyness are enormous.
So off I go, rejoicing ( I hope I can make it past 10am!!!)
4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Philippians 4:4 New International Version (NIV)