Submit Your Life Daily

There are many things that I would like to do today... but I can’t.  Being a good wife, mother or a faithful Christian calls me to let go of my screaming will, to stop struggling for my way.  To be faithful to what needs to be done in front of me.  

We do that every day of our life, you know.  Every day we wake up with an agenda of how we will spend our time.  Many days things work just the way we hope and it’s the easiest to be happy and content.  Other days other things impose themselves and our flesh screams and wants to keep screaming as our day slips through our fingertips.  You wouldn’t think one day would be such a big deal, but just try it.  Watch for one of those days and notice how your flesh screams.   Especially if that day is mounted on top of a few days in a row like this.

My life this week has been “boxed” in with running from one puppy to another as we train 2 new dogs, catching up on laundry and mail from over a week of being out of town, appointments and running kids from intensified activities as spring is upon us. It  feels like it is crushing me.  I feel agitated and like if one person asks me for something I might pop.  Thankfully, I’m not used to living in such constant intensity.  I thought I was going to get to paint the bathroom (something I’ve been wanting to get to for a month), spend time reading, be outside, bake, write... but these extra things are taking the place of what I would most like to do.  

I surrender my life today to the things that are.  I surrender the things I most want to do and I offer my minutes and my day to God for his glory.  Dying to the flesh, I let go and I rest in this day in Him desiring mostly to be faithful as a wife, a mother and His disciple.