Crying for God

Have you ever felt like you needed to cry but the tears won't come? And then all of a sudden when your not expecting it the pressure cooker explodes and your spewing everywhere only to have your loving husband pick up the pieces of your emotions.

I must admit the past few weeks have been hard. I took to much on my plate and then became weary and burdened. I forgot that I am NOT super mom and I forgot the short two letter word ``no`` until I became useless to my own family. I was reminded this morning as I was reading that God does have an escape for me, and that HE longs to bear my burdens. He says to me``Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your soul.``

I need to remember to cry to Him FIRST because he will walk the path along side me with empathy, understanding, and strength.

This morning I read over Hebrews 4:14-16 and I started to feel encouraged.

It reads: (from The Message)

Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let's not let it slip through our fingers. We don't have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.

So my prayer is that I will remember it`s OK to stop and cry out to HIM. That he will continue to show me the ugly places of my heart and extend His Grace to me in my daily walk.

A Day Of Rest

Anyone with a few children will sympathize with me that it's not a walk in the park to get a good family picture where everyone is all looking.
Our church has been hounding me for a picture for the "Family wall" for weeks. So I finally got that done today.





Once we were home we had a quiet afternoon. Presley and I joined Rachael for an afternoon nap is was so nice to snuggle up to my youngest two for a couple hours. Listening to little ones breath while they sleep is one of my favorite things to do. We have a full week a head of us. I am thankful for the relaxing Sunday we had together.

Sweet Sleep

Goodness, where did the time go? Homeschooling three children makes for some full days, I forgot all about blogging!
We ended up taking the children swimming today and they were so pooped by bedtime.
September has been a busy month so far for us with, home school meetings, gymnastics, appointments, company the list goes on before we know it we will soon be Christmas shopping. But I must say I love the still of the evnnings with sounds of a little ones deep breaths of a sound sleep. I end up staring at them reflecting on my day, run my fingers through there soft hair and pray for tomorow.