Chaos of Life
I wasn't the best version of myself this week. It's the end of the school year, and something happens to your calendar this time of year. There's hardly a moment to take a breath before you're on to your next commitment. It's exhausting…track and field days, awards assemblies, hot outdoor events, church gatherings, family get-togethers, field trips, and on and on and on. I'm tired.
Last night, as I was scrambling to get some semblance of routine in our evening, l yelled. The kids were running and screaming. The house was upside down. The smoke alarm went off as my hubby was cooking dinner, which incidentally, lined up perfectly with my 3-year-olds temper tantrum. All this, of course, had me running from the shower, slipping, I might add, to find the source of the chaos. My hair was wet from the 4-minute shower I had taken in a desperate attempt for a moment alone. I'm telling you, it was straight out of a movie. Now, dinner was great! Nothing was burned, and my child got over his fit a few moments later, but goodness! I was overwhelmed with this season of life. I couldn't make it up if I tried.
For those with little ones, I'm sure you have a thousand or more stories of similar happenings in your home that are almost comical now, or maybe your babies are all grown but you too remember the insanity of this season. But last night…last night it wasn't funny. Last night, I was overwhelmed, overworked, overcommitted, over-touched, and honestly…just over it. Over all of it.
I just wanted a moment of air. I did eventually get a handle on the chaos. My hubby, who had cooked, also cleaned up after dinner. The kids were bathed, the laundry was done, and everyone survived.
As I laid down last night, though, I was overwhelmed not with the kids or with my husband, not with my job, my piling ministry commitments, or the thousand other things…but with God's grace. I have a home with a smoke alarm, three perfectly rotten kids, a husband that acknowledges my exhaustion and steps in to pick up the slack where there's just not enough of me to do so (and it even included a giant delicious meal which he knows is the shortcut to my heart every time.)
This life is chaotic, messy, exhausting, and sometimes loud. It's like this way more often than what you see on Facebook or Instagram. But y'all…I'm an HEIR of the Kingdom of God!! This life is a flash of light. This is not my home.
We're fast approaching the GPS: HEIRS Women's Conference. It's a day that's been prayed over, and prepared in detail into the late hours of the night. Join me. Learn what Jesus meant for you and for me. He has called you into grace, not perfection. It's messy, it's chaotic, and sometimes you cry in the shower. 
But it's also so safe and so beautiful and paid for by the blood of Jesus!
"For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
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