Fruits in my life
There is no sleep happening in our house, well for me at least. I mean parenting is hard enough on a good nights sleep let along on a broken three or four hours!
So what do we do when we complete run out of everything and anything we have to give. Well, for me, there are two avenues (1) complete frustration and destruction or (2) Joy.
Option 1 is the easy one. When I’m overtired and I finally lay my head on that pillow only to hear the cries again, losing it is easy. Yelling, crying, baracadung myself in my closet (yes I’ve done that) is so easy for me. It’s my first response, my natural overtired mom reaction. But option 2, that’s another story.
It is next to impossible to wake up in the morning feeling like you partied all night with people who don’t like you and put a smile on your face, hop out of bed and retrieve the two children that have no idea what they have put you through. But, lucky (or unlucky) for me; joy is a fruit of the spirt. What is the fruit of the spirit you ask? Well I’m glad you did.
Fruit of the spirit is stuff in my life that should be there if I am striving to be like Jesus. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, you know, all that stuff that comes so naturally to us (insert eye roll). But they are there for a reason, God asks us to have these fruit for a reason and I believe it’s because life is much better when we practice these.
So, tonight as I put my sugar filled over excited trick or treaters to bed hoping for a peaceful night (but knowing that’s not coming) I really want to work at possessing these fruit, practicing joy at 2am, peace at my 7am wake up call love 24 hours a day and patience with my husband (because I know there is absolutely nothing he can do about this season of life we are in even though I somehow expect him to have magic powers)
So, hold me accountable friends and remind me how precious children are, how wonderful a loving husband can be and that joy is a gift from God to make life better in all circumstances.
We all need to start checking the fruits off our to do lists because not only does it make us more like Him it makes life so much better!
p.s. how can such cute children cause so much chaos? 👇🏻😳
