It seems with every passing day the hours in the day get less and the “things to do” get more. Along with the mundane mix of cleaning, cooking, bathing children and eating meals, a never ending list of “other things” gets added daily to our already full plates. There are new films to watch, new books to read, new recipes to try, new places to go, new websites to visit. It reminds me of Solomons wise words about the writing of books. But, what would God have us do? I know I can’t do everything….no one can, and yet I act as if there is a way to fit all these activities in to one day and still be sane at the end!
Something has to give somewhere. Jesus said “one thing is needful” and his “yoke is easy”. From that I perceive Im going wrong somewhere as certainly I find that I dont *truly* seek first the Kingdom of God and my spirit is more like Martha in her hustle and bustle than sitting at Jesus’ feet with a teachable spirit, and last of all my yoke does not feel easy!! So yes, my priorities seem to sum up the madness of my days and in general I wonder if our society has its priorities decidedly backwards. Everywhere I look people are frustrated, stressed, worried and anxious (including myself) and perhaps if our priorities were right at least some of our anxiety would ease as I fear we bring it on ourselves.
I remember reading in one book about parenting and homeschooling that as Mother you will have interuptions and as long as you try and do away with interuptions you will find them more stressful (or something like that), but the point the person was trying to make was that if I wasn’t so wrapped up in what **I** was doing then perhaps the endless stream of interuptions in my day would not lessen, but my handling of them would have quite an impact on both myself and my children. I shall have to find out the quote and post it up here as the person explained it much better than I have.
