Not Enough

I read a great blog post this morning.  My friend, Becky, posted it on Facebook.  It was on the blog Power of Moms.  It's titled "Your Children Want You".

Her post was about how we as moms can often feel inadequate when we get on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and blogs.  We see all the amazing things "other" mothers are doing and we feel as if we are failing as mothers and wives.  

I know I don't often post about horrible days, but I have before.  You can read about long homeschool days here and here.  And there are so many things I am still trying to learn at the almost age of 40 (it will be here in less than two month - OY) that it has it's own label on my blog.

So I just wanted to encourage you mothers out there today too.  I have many days when I would like to just curl up and watch a good movie or read a good book instead of teaching my kids multiplication facts.  You can still hear on a hourly basis, "Please stop pestering your sister!"  Actually it's more like, "PLEASE STOP PESTERING YOUR SISTER!"  I burned the cinnamon rolls this morning (and these were not Pinterest cinnamon rolls either, they were just plain old Pillsbury).  However, icing covers a multitude of sins.  :)   I think it's one of the main areas Satan knows he can grab ahold of us and tear us apart.  But God says something different:

Do you not know?
   Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
   the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
   and his understanding no one can fathom.
 He gives strength to the weary
   and increases the power of the weak.
 Even youths grow tired and weary,
   and young men stumble and fall;
 but those who hope in the LORD
   will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
   they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.

 Isaiah 40:28-31

God knows our needs even before we know them.  He knows our weaknesses.  He knows our strengths.  He will use them all to his glory.  So even if no one sees you doing the 1,000 of loads of laundry, or even if you can't make the beautiful handmade dresses, or even if no one notices the 100 times a day you pick up the house, or even if you can't make that Pinterest recipe that has 20 ingredients (10 of which you've never even heard of), all the work as a mother and wive you do is not unnoticed by God.  As my Sunday School teacher said, "All that laundry is kingdom work!"  

Take time today to encourage one of your friends.  Tell them you appreciate them.  I received a word of encouragement yesterday from a college friend who I haven't seen in at least 10 years, that was just the perfect thing at the perfect time.  Thanks, Mrs. J. R.  And thank you to Mrs. Becky for posting the great blog post on Facebook this morning.