Getting Recentered After An Emotionally Draining Day



Dear Sisters, Phew. I had a difficult day yesterday. I won't bore you with all the details as there are so many. But it was one of those days that I think most women experience and would soon forget. People problems were the core of the matter. I can take almost anything else. I had a multitude of attitudes coming at me yesterday from my folks to my kids to my friend to my husband. It was like a giant wave by the time it was all finished. I felt washed up on the beach gasping for breath...
I got up this morning and still was struggling. I asked the LORD what to do as I was having trouble staying focused on my Bible study. He led me to go get the head phones on and worship Him with some of the beautiful praise music that I have collected. (I usually do this on Sunday, so this was a rare treat on Crazy Tuesday.) I put my favorites on, opened the living room door, and sung my heart out to Him, silently, but with a chorus of beautiful voices in my ears. As I gazed up at His stars in His Universe, I felt so calmed and so strengthened. He is so good to me. He is so good to me.
We went and cleaned the church and on the way home I knew I would have more noise and problems today. So I was praying as what to do. The LORD showed me, and I did it. I shut the phone down (one big noise gone for a while as I really didn't feel like conversing with anyone); saw my parents off on their three month trip; got my kids reading quietly for 1 1/2 hours after praying with them for help; and just enjoyed the basic pleasures of homemaking with my music playing in the background. Oh, it's been so nice, Ronda. I can feel my strength coming back. I made my kids some oatmeal muffins and surprised them by bringing them in to them on a tray to eat in their rooms while they read.
Now my kids are playing a game quietly as I told them anyone who isn't quiet has to help me clean. One had to take the trash out a bit ago, and now they are quiet I felt such peace watering my garden while sipping cafe au lait. The LORD knows how much we need a garden to go and pray in and find delights in.
I am going to let you go now as I want to wash my floor by hand. I listened to my grandmother explain, not to long ago, the pleasures of washing a floor by hand. I have never looked at the job the same again! Now I look forward to it. I also want to wash my dishes and thank the LORD that I am like a doctor with her hands always in water - no wonder I never get a cold! I want to iron some of my clothes so that they will be fresh and pretty for church this weekend. I want to make some pizza bread for the kids as a surprise for lunch. And if I have time before music lessons, I want to bake two fresh peach pies from the peaches on our tree. The joys of being a homemaker. I will never get over it. How thankful I am to be alone with my kids today. Just us. No interruptions. No noise. No friends of theirs over. I need to be alone with them and get my strength back before I can step out of my house and help others again. I was zapped of it yesterday... but Praise the Good LORD who is always faithful, I am getting it back moment by moment as I pray and praise and feel His peace.
This has been one of my most pleasurable Crazy Tuesdays yet. It has the essence of Sunday.
Much love,
Laine

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