Dear Weary mom,
if your week has been anything like my week, it’s no wonder we are weary :). Unfortunately my weekend holds no hope of rest!
Tomorrow is graduation night for a couple of girls in our youth group,(and I wouldn’t miss this for the world! Those girls mean a lot to me) Saturday morning hubby has a funeral to do and two hours after said funeral, he has to be at church for a wedding he is doubg as well. then there is all of the Sunday activities. I love being a pastors wife, and it is my calling! But it’s no wonder we as moms get so weary…..notice how there wasn’t any family events in there! So add four kids to the mix…and a dog! WHEW. I am exhausted already.
there comes a point though that I find that I am reminding myself that someday i won’t have to do all these things. as we live these broken lives in a fallen world, there is no such thing as perfect peace and rest. How many times have you fallen into bed totally exhausted just to wake up a few short hours for any number of reasons.
1. A sick child
2. Insomnia–for who knows why!
3. Dreams/ nightmares
4. You hear a noise—or you THINK you heard a noise
5. Worry for some reason, they all vary depending on what’s going on in your life at the time.
And the list could go on and on and on, and it usually does. Butjust like my weekend is full and holds no hope of rest, neither does his world. But there will come a day dear friend where we will have PERFECT (yes i mean perfect as in FLAWLESS) peace and rest. We will no longer be weary moms!
ALL. Of those reasons I listed above, and ALL of your reasons you added to it, will NEVER happen again.
What joy that brings my heart….seriously. I feel at times this life will drag on for eternity, but it won’t. Every birthday and holiday is a reminder of just how fast time flies!
I hope that is an encouragement to you as it is to me. No I don’t want to rush through this amazing life God has given me. But on those super hard days, weeks, months, or yes even years, that one thought of one day reaching that perfect peace and God promises, makes me be able to face one more day!
I think that’s why God gives us a glimpse of what’s not going to be in heaven more than what is. We understand the hurts and pains of this life right now, and to not have to go through them someday is HOPE! As for what is going to be there….it’s far too hard for us to understand that because it’s nothing like we have ever seen!
So my dear friend yes this life is wearisome. Monotony is all around us….our schedules keep us hopping and exhausted, and our kids love us and drive us crazy all at the same time, but yet when all this seems to be dragging on we have hope of true perfect peace and rest. May you cling to that hope til you reach it, I know I will!
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