Convicted!

I came across this on www.desiringgod.org (Please don’t give me too much credit…I only wish I enjoyed and actually read this blog as much as I do “home improvementy” blogs).

I was convicted when I read it the first time, and then convicted a second time when I received it from a friend in my email box. 

The Gospel for Moms

Rachel Jankovic, author of Loving the Little Years, writes:

Live the gospel in the things that no one sees. Sacrifice for your children in places that only they will know about. Put their value ahead of yours. Grow them up in the clean air of gospel living. Your testimony to the gospel in the little details of your life is more valuable to them than you can imagine. If you tell them the gospel, but live to yourself, they will never believe it. Give your life for theirs every day, joyfully. Lay down pettiness. Lay down fussiness. Lay down resentment about the dishes, about the laundry, about how no one knows how hard you work.

Stop clinging to yourself and cling to the cross. There is more joy and more life and more laughter on the other side of death than you can possibly carry alone.

Read the whole thing here.

So I pose this question to myself, “Do I work daily to provide our kiddos with “clean air of Gospel living”?   Do I live the Gospel in the things that no one sees?

Some days are better than others and I know I need to give myself grace, but really (especially in my own thought life) I humbly admit that I don’t consistently do this.  I value myself, my time, my needs and my desires much higher than I ought. I find myself thinking… “C is so lucky that he gets to have peace and quite at work.” or “Really, I have to change yet another diaper?!? Or “How am I going to fit potty training into all the things on my to-do list?”

I am convicted to work on “laying  down the pettiness…fussiness…resentment”.…and other hindrances that keep me clinging to myself and not clinging to the cross!

I so wish there was an easy, straight forward, objective way to do this, a check list that I could wake up, take care of and move on from…but know deep down that the only way I can truly do this is to be in the Word…learning it…loving it…and living it!

I hope this provides good food for thought!

Be blessed!

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On a house note…

Thank you so much for the continued prayers…as of last night, the negotiation phase (left over from the inspection) came to a close! 

We are scheduled to close next week…and then will officially have a home in our new neck of the wood!  We are cautiously optimistic…understanding we don’t yet have keys to the front door…but, filled with anticipation as we think about our little family residing within the house’s four walls!