After a long, busy, rainy, frustrating day, I'm in my bed next to my sleepy hubby. I have the radio playing our favorite station (click the link and listen) and all is quiet.
The dishes have been done, for the most part--except the hot casserole dish still on the stove. It can wait until tomorrow. The stove, counters and table have been wiped and the clean dishes put away. These are the children's chores each meal time. It continues in a seemingly never ending round. One would figure that since it is predictable, there wouldn't be much fuss. It's expected, so what's the big deal? Well, amazingly it is a big deal. I hear things like, "Why am I always the first one everyone looks at when it's time to get the kitchen chores done?" To which I usually reply, "Because everything hinges on whether or not the clean dishes are put away." They are finding that their jobs are integral to the greater running of the household. Everyone is important.
Most of the time there is peace, some teasing, laughter and play. Other times there are melt downs where Mom or Dad have to step in and nip attitudes in the bud. I'm sure, dear readers, things are much the same in your homes.
More recently, however, our home has taken on a challenging time where one of our children is showing increasingly more depression, anxiety, rigidity, judgement on everyone around them and the world, stoicism, loosing track of time, staring off in to space for a time instead of doing school work, disappearing to the basement to just sit and mull over the ills of the world and the list continues.
These idiosyncrasies have only surfaced more since my husband was saved in December. We are dumbfounded and lost at times. This truly has thrown us and our other two children in to a tailspin wondering where the other child gets these "off the wall" hurtful thoughts in response to the harmless banter between them, or something this child has mulled over from 2+ years ago. Forgiveness is a foreign concept, mercy and grace as well.
This young person has been counseling with our pastor, but we've become keenly aware that we need to take said child's treatment to another level. (No judgement please) We need a diagnosis so we know how to better help this young person.
If we come to your mind, would you please shoot a couple prayers up on our behalf? We've had an impression that something like this was there all along, but the incidents now are too frequent to shake them off as coincidence any longer.
Needless to say, sitting here in my bed listening to praise music is just the kind of peace that this tired Momma needs for the sake of quieting my soul. Today has been busy and stressful. Tomorrow looks to be the same, but in a different way.
With all of this we continually praise the Lord!
He gives us more than "WE" can handle
just so we can lean in to Him MORE!
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