The service of mommyhood

I have been thinking a couple of days, what can I share with my precious friends?  They are so wise, so "full of the Spirit", what I could I do to encourage, love and express my love for the Lord all at the same time (really easy task :) )  The only thing I could think of is something that has been burning on my heart for awhile and that is our service as mommies (and wives)  As we are in this season of wiping noses, kissing boo-boo's, training children, and feeling like we do the EXACT same thing over and over again, I think "I cannot do this anymore...ugh is this making any difference, who cares if the kitchen is swept for the forth time today...seriously what impact am I making in the world?"  Well then I am gently reminded that I am doing this because I was made for such a time as this.  My children were made especially for me.  No one else could love them like I do, no one could train them like I do and no one else can be their mommies.  Ladies, we have a special, wonderful calling on our lives to mommies and wives.  We have a wonderful calling to clean, cook and serve our homes.  No one else can do it like us, and no one else was made for it but us, and we are doing it to not only serve them, but serve our Lord.  There is a reason God spent an entire chapter on being wives, moms and women..it is important to Him.  And I am learning that we aren't called to be perfect. In fact we are to be exactly opposite, for it says in His Word that His strength is made perfect in our weakness.  We don't have to have it all together we just have to rely on Him. 

There is a song out there by Steven Curtis Chapman called Do Everything and one time I was really throwing this pity party and these verses came across the radio:

You're picking up toys on the living room floor
for the 15th time today
Matching up socks and sweeping up lost
Cheerios that got away
You put a baby on your hip and color on your lips
and head out the door
And while I may not know you I bet I know you
Wonder sometimes does it matter at all
We'll let me remind you it all matters just as long as you
Do everything you do to the glory of the One who made you
Cause He made you to do
Every little thing that you do to bring a smile to His face
And tell the story of grace
With every move that you make
And every little thing you do

Yep that was me and that reminded me...it's not about me.  It's about Him, it's about my babies, it's about my honey...it's not about going from task to task with resentment in my heart, rather it's singing and dancing through my days knowing I am serving my Lord, serving my children and being blessed through it all.

Ladies, I love you so much and please know that I am so blessed to walk this season with you, and the seasons to come.

Allison