Our wants vs Gods plans WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN How many mothers would say they have spent countless hours wondering “what might have been?” I know I have…especially on those really stressful days. I look around and all I see are all the things I am responsible for doing, all the people who need me to be something different to meet their need, and all the things I feel like I have failed at! I have wanted to throw my hands up in the air and quit, more times than I care to admit! I spend ALOT of time comparing myself to other moms…Moms who are prettier than me….skinnier than me….smarter than me…more fashionable than me….more successful than me….more outgoing than me….moms who have better behaved children than me…..the list goes ON AND ON! I have always wanted to be a nurse, a labor and delivery nurse, be there when a precious baby enters the world, but having 6 children and a full time job haven’t left much time for college. There have been days I have almost resented the fact that I haven’t been able to fulfill that dream. Often times I feel as though I am nothing more than a maid, an ATM, a cook (and not a very good one lol), a chauffeur, a playmate and well…sometimes a door mat!! I wake up saying “I can’t do this” and I go to bed saying “I DID IT”. Driving to work one morning, I was thinking about all the things I wanted to do. Be a nurse (deliver a baby), drive a car around a race track, record a CD, have a radio talk show, and own a horse ranch…God spoke to me and said, “listen to yourself, you pretty much live that on a daily basis.” I said “Do what God??” all I do is take care of kids, clean the house, go to work, drive 100 mph everywhere I go because I am always in a hurry, do the laundry, feed the horses, get everyone where they need to be, help with homework, read stories, play pretend,,,blah,blah,blah! He said “Ok, go back over all the things you just told Me you do and compare them to the things you tell Me you wanna do”. I said “OK God (confident that I was about to prove Him wrong….yeah right, we all know that can’t happen) ..So I got to thinking…I want to be a nurse and deliver a baby, well I have fixed and kissed numerous boo-boos, delivered 6 babies (all being my own). I am always in a hurry, so I drive like a race car driver on a daily basis. I sing ALOT, mostly in the car or shower, there is no record button, but Im still singing. I don’t get to talk on the radio, but I do get to talk to alot of people at my job. And while I don’t actually have a “horse ranch”, I do have some horses and a barn, so that counts right? All that made me think….If I had done all the things I wanted to do, then I wouldn’t be who God made me to be…A MOM! And being a mom means I get to be all those things and then some. No I don’t have a couple of initials after my name and I don’t get a big paycheck, but what I do get is tons of hugs and kisses and memories that I wouldn’t trade for anything. What I hope moms get out of reading this is…..Stop beating yourself up, comparing yourself to someone else and wondering if you’re a failure. Take joy in the fact that God made YOU, YOU! And He equipped you to do what you need to do! You were born for such a time as this! Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. God bless you Moms!
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:52:31 +0000
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