A Lesson Learned: Do Everything...

Does the monotony of parenting always get to you? It certainly does me! Or how about the menial tasks? For instance, multiple times a day I have to put all 10 pillows back onto our burrow. Yes, I have 10 pillows on my burrow. Information technology was bought prior to having children. I love that couch, but there are days when the thought of a couch with attached cushions that don't come off sound awfully highly-seasoned. The boys honey taking them off and throwing them on the floor so they can jump off our coffee table onto them. I've tried telling them that the pillows on the couch are off-limits, but their apparent testosterone gets the best of them and alas, the pillows are on the floor once again. It literally drives me crazy.

Or continually feeling the crumbs nether my bare-feet on our laminate floor. No matter how much I seem to vacuum…crumbs remain. Ugh!

Parenthood is merely plain exhausting. And there are times when I wonder, "Does anything I do matter?"

I heard this vocal past Steven Curtis Chapman several months agone and shared it on my Facebook page. But I heard information technology again today and was again touched especially by the get-go verse. The music video is only a little goofy (in my opinion) and kind of takes away from the meaning, but hither it is:

(Become here if yous tin can't view the video)

Your picking upward toys on the living room floor for the 15th time today
Matching up socks
Sweeping upwards lost cheerios that got away

You put a baby on your hip
Color on your lips and head out the door

While I may not know you,
I bet I know y'all
Wonder sometimes, does it matter at all?

Well permit me remind you, it all matters just as long
As you lot practise everything you do to the celebrity of the Ane who made yous,
Cause he made you,
To exercise every little affair that you practise
To bring a smile to His face
Tell the story of grace
With every motion that you make
And every little thing you practice

In a nutshell, this song exemplifies these verses:

"And whatever you practise, whether in word or deed, do it all in the proper name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." -Colossians iii:17

"And then whether you swallow or drink or whatever you do, exercise it all for the celebrity of God." -one Corinthians 10:31

Motherhood (or fatherhood or beingness a caretaker for children) is our ministry. It's our calling. And it's the MOST of import job/ministry nosotros will have on this earth.

So even though many of the tasks associated with parenting are monotonous and seem menial, if we do them all the celebrity of God (particularly while little eyes are watching), God will bless our efforts!

May this vocal be every bit encouraging to you as information technology is to me!

Music video by Steven Curtis Chapman performing Practice Everything (Official Music Video). (P) (C) 2011 Sparrow Records. All rights reserved.

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