Christian Living

---

Beyond Me


“It’s beyond me!” I shout in frustration.

God turned my life upside down this summer and shook. After seven years of stay-at-home work and home schooling, I became a full-time working mom (a preschool teacher) with two school-aged kids who were starting formal school for the first time as a fifth and first grader. The leisurely mornings of prayer and coffee on the porch followed by intimate home classes, library trips and home school functions are gone. We’ve entered the mainstream, and we’re on the run from morning to night.

It’s hard. I come home tired from work and my husband and children want to spend time with me. I have my children’s homework to oversee, dinner and lunches to prepare, laundry, dishes… I’m not sure where the vacuum cleaner is anymore. Note to self: check beneath the pile of paperwork in the corner of the living room in your spare time next year.

It IS beyond me. I can’t do what God is calling me to do in my own strength. I’ve leapt out of my dry, cozy rowboat and I’m walking on water. Every morning I ask for God’s grace to live up to the high calling of ministering to my family at home and to His littlest disciples at work.

And beyond me, He is.

---

PLEASE ENCOURAGE AUTHOR BELOW LEAVE COMMENT ON ARTICLE