One of the things I so struggle with at this time in my life, is finding time for Bible Study. I so need bible study in my life and it is so difficult to find a minute of spare time to do it. Don't you just feel like your kids have radar and know when you sit down for a minute to re-fuel. I get up at 6am to do bible study (this rarely happens) and the kids get up 5 minutes after me, full of demands. I try to do my study at night and the minute I am still with the kids in bed, I fall asleep. Sometimes with everyone off at school and just M home I try to study in the mornings. It is amazing how much 1 child can get into especially if I am trying to do my study. We had one such "near miss" the other morning... I had just sat down to do some Bible Study, M was playing near by with her baby and her stroller. A few minutes later, I missed her. She had wondered upstairs. I stopped my study and went to investigate. I found my bedroom door closed. This is always a bad sign. Anytime M is in a room with the door closed, I can be sure there is trouble. I walked in to find her with my dark red finger nail polish, painting the back of my bedroom door. I grabbed the nail polish, and quickly surveyed the room for more damage. Luckily the door was my only art project. I grabbed a baby wipe (what would I do without those things) and some finger nail polish remover. It only made the art project pink instead of dark red. Oh well, it could have been the carpet or the bedroom furniture. It is funny how my standards of something being ruined have changed. I will take finger nail polish on the back of a door any day--it could have been much, much worse, Ha! I know there is no easy answer, I will continue to struggle to find time to do Bible Study, anything worth doing is going to be met with adversity. I could let this be an area of major frustration in my life, let these "incidences" get to me. Or I could find the humor in these situations, and keep on seeking Him. I think I will leave the paint on my door as a reminder that God is so much bigger than my situations. He doesn't always need complete uninterrepted silence to speak to me. He knows what my house is like!!! He just needs a heart that seeks Him. Who would have thought that He would get me up from my Bible Study, take me upstairs and use nail polish on the back of a door to teach me that? What an awesome God we serve!!!!
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