Monday, May 7, 2012
My life doesn't look like a pottery barn catalog
With a 3.5 year-old, a 19 month-old and a baby due in 9.5 weeks my house is just a disaster. I mean I try hard to keep it clean and organized, but somehow even though I pick up the toys and clean up everyday, it's still a disaster. I spend countless hours in the kitchen cleaning, cooking, cleaning more, cooking more, and then cleaning more! Somedays I can feel so defeated that all my cleaning was in vain when I look around and my house looks like a train wreck when I so aspire for my home to look like a Pottery Barn catalog.
The other day I received a new Pottery Barn kids catalog. I was admiring the beautiful rooms, but then looking at my kids room that I am currently redoing as they are moving in together making room for the baby to have her own nursery, I had one of those defeated moments where even though earlier in the day I picked up all their toys, and made the beds. Toys were now everywhere, and so were blankets dirty clothes, and who knows what else!
But then, God whispered to me "your house isn't supposed to look like a catalog (or pinterest for that matter!)," and so true! Just like we can get defeated when looking at celebrities in magazines at how beautiful and thin they are two minutes after having a baby, it is all unrealistic! Satan wants us to focus our attention on all the wrong things, and I want to make sure I am focused on God's things!
God does desire for me to have a well kept home, but not at the expense of me being frustrated with my kids for playing, or not getting to spend time with them because I'm so busy cleaning up after them. So, my prayer today is:
"Lord help me focus on you and being a mother. Help me to have YOUR priorities, even at the expense of my pride or judgement from others. Help me not feel defeated, but know that I can do "all things in Christ who gives me strength." I love you so much Lord. Amen"
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