I have those weeks, ya know? Where I am ON. I've brought my "A" game every day. I've checked all my boxes and then some. The house is clean, laundry's done, work is challenging enough to stay exciting and calm enough to feel normal, the kids are happy, doing their homework....
I love those weeks.
Thing is, I never have 2 back-to-back. If I have an ON week, I can pretty much count on the fact that the next week will be OFF somehow. And I should know by now that I'll start feeling guilty on the first OFF day.
"Why can't I get it together today?"
"What is wrong with me?"
"Ugh, it's going to be one of THOSE weeks."
I've been noticing, though, that many great things come out of those OFF weeks. My house may be messier, the kids grouchier, budget tighter, but in those stresses comes a beautiful cry of desperation. It's in those weeks that I remember where I came from. I remember what a mess I was to begin with. I remember my incredibly gigantic need for Grace and Mercy.
The beauty of redemption isn't that it simply erases what was. It takes what was and turns it on itself. Redemption remakes.
So I'm thankful for my weaknesses and my OFF weeks. I need them to remind me that I really never have it all together. I'm really just in the middle of a beautiful mess Jesus is making into His story, and I'm so glad for that.
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Love it!!!! Being in the middle of His will for us...the beautiful mess that we periodically dip our hands into to try to mold that one thing just a little differently...but knowing in our heart of hearts that He is in control and we can rest in that and even in our "off" moments we are still His beautiful, wonderful, loved children! What a feeling...knowing that at His feet is the best place to learn our story!
So true and completely real!
This is so great! I've never thought of it like that before. I couldn't agree more though and from now on in my OFF weeks/days/months lol I will remember how broken I am and the reason I need our Lord every single moment.