Saturday Mornings

Its Saturday and Drew has left to help someone move. All three of the kids are sleeping. A rare, and beautiful moment. After a week of fighting with a little boy who seems to have suddenly decided that he no longer needs to nap. I disagree as I'm not yet ready for him to no longer nap. And so at this moment I'm going to soak it up. This time of silence, it has become so rare in this house. I know that someday I'll miss the bustle of a busy house but right now, at this moment it is beautiful.

This week i have gotten out my ipod and have loaded it with some sermons from Tim Keller. My devotion time has been full of interruptions lately and i'm feeling that I have been missing this time to learn and grow. I put in my earbuds and listened while I tidied. I dusted and agreed with the words that i was hearing. I put dishes away as I was being reminded of what it meant to be an adopted child of God, of seeing Him as He is. I swept while being encouraged to live my life with my eyes to Heaven. Being reminded of what was important. That some day we will be in our perfect bodies, "the grace of our youth, the strength of our middle years and the wisdom of our age will all be wrapped together...." (Tim Keller) I picked up baby toys and was told that in all I do, as great as the things i have now are nothing compared to what we will have when we see Him as He is. And I was refreshed. Re-energized, reminded that my calling as a Christian does not stop, that I am HIS child. It is not a fickle thing in which I can pick up when I want. It is forever, for always.

Its a challenge to live for Him in a world that has grown so selfish with want and desire. In a world that has forgotten that children are a blessing, that families are meant to work together. In a broken world so full of sin and discontentment. I forget and am sometimes swept along with the longing of things. And then, I am reminded and renewed, that these things are not forever, they are only a fraction of what is in store for us. Our hope is in Him.

How glorious to know that this life is simply a poor reflection of what is to come. And by HIS grace I have been called, to show His love to those around me. To the little ones He has placed in my care, to the neighbors that are placed around us, to those who do not know Him. It is the calling of a Christian, to show in our words, in or actions what it means to be His child.

I John 3:1-3 "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies Himself, just as He is pure.""