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Topic: Blessed (11/29/04)
TITLE: Blessed! By David Stewart 11/30/04 |
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Why do I have to be up at 1 in the morning doing laundry? Why don’t I get to sleep? I begin to think about how unfair it all is and then I pick up another little dress that belongs to my 3 year old Hannah. I hold it out to look at it before I fold it. It’s so cute. Just like the little girl that wears it. She’s such a sweetheart. She has taken her mom wanting to be gone better than me. Sometimes I start to get depressed and she walks by and smiles, throwing water on the fire that would be my depression and I forget I was feeling down. All of my kids have that effect on me. As I look at the dress I think about my four kids, upstairs asleep, and how great they are when something sweeps over me. What is it you might ask? Suddenly I am overwhelmed with joy! I have to be up doing laundry at 1 am because I have kids. I have four wonderful, fantastic kids! Wow! How lucky can one guy be? I have tons of laundry because I have four kids! I am blessed enough to have four kids to have to do laundry for! I pull Hannah’s dress close to my chest, look up to heaven and say “Thank you LORD for the kids that have me up in the middle of the night. You have so truly blessed me! Thank you!”
My burden gone, I couldn’t stop smiling as I finished the last load of clothes. It wasn’t hard to finish. It didn’t feel like work. My perspective had changed. I was happy to be up at now 1:30 doing laundry! I was still smiling as I carried the little ones to the car and for the drive home. I was still smiling when I finally hit the pillow and said one last “Thank you Jesus. I am very blessed.”