This has been a looooooooong week. Last week I had day surgery that I had to undergo at the immediate request of my doctor and looking forward to what I had hoped for a restful weekend, it was spent keeping eye on Hurricane Gustav, that I praise God that it wasn’t the storm we all expected it to be.
Now.
Yesterday was the first day of homeschooling, and the funny thing, I woke up to the shining faces of some eager students ready to start and mommy was the one wanting to hide under the covers.
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As the day wore on, it was just a really blessed filled experience to have that deeper bond with the kids, and starting off our first days with lessons that we had prep and play with during the summer…this was it…we were officially schooling.
When “school” was over…I think I was more tired than they were and I felt bad as I thought how much I had lagged behind on well..everything. I had made a “70″ on a distance course I was taking and it made me feel like…maybe I was juggling too much as most of us usually did, but as the night went on and I caught up on a week’s worth of bible reading I had put off, caught up on emails that I wasn’t able to get to and just really take the time to rest….I found myself just getting hungry to get back to walking with our Heavenly Father again and seeking His word.
It was great and it was much needed. Part of the weariness I had felt was due to fear and concern at what the doctor’s report will be and still waiting to hear how that went, and it was partly due to as well, just personal self-doubts…In all this week, I kept going and going and realize that even though the doctors had reminded me to take some time for rest, rather than heed their advice I pushed myself more than I should have.
How many times we sometimes do that with our Heavenly Father? He tells us to stop, to rest, to relax and instead we argue or find ways to go…”Just a little bit more”, or “one more thing Lord” and I’ll get to that but never really do.
There are somethings in life that can really wait but when we don’t bother to take care of ourselves and our walk with God, it’s so easy to feel tired and lost and discouraged….
I praise God that we serve an awesome God who knows much better than we do and I pray I learn to be a little less stubborn and listen a little bit more. 
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