doing my job

Stamina actually means resilient energy and strength…
enduring physical or mental energy and strength that allows somebody to do something for a long time
Generally I would use this word in reference to when I run or workout or when used to play softball – I have actually been described as a person with great stamina. Generally I do have a lot of energy, strength and resilience. Vigor and endurance to do any task in front of me yet when it comes to my kids, I don’t always feel this way. I don’t always have such determination.
There's an e-mail story that goes around about a man who comes home from work to a messy house. The children are still in their pajamas, there are toys everywhere, food isn't put away and dirty dishes are still on the kitchen table. He finds his wife sitting calmly in bed reading a book. When he asks what happened she replies, "You ask me every day when you come home, what I did that day, today I didn't do it."

I can relate well with this story because I find it to be so true. Work as a mother is never done. Laundry is never fully caught up. No matter how often I clean the kitchen, in a few hours there will be dirty dishes again. Being a mom requires an enormous amount of self-discipline and stamina to keep doing the same tasks over and over again. It can become overwhelming at times.

I do know that I was hand-picked by God, as all mothers are, to care for the precious young people in my life. Daily chores allow me the opportunity to show my love through actions to my family. It's easier to view a "special" act as a loving one, like when I take the extra time to make my husband's favorite meal or do something for him. But it's also picking up the dirty socks, washing the dishes and every other little daily act that shows love. Although sometimes it seems I’m defined by all the things that I do, but not by my love. I am defined by God’s Love and the Love for others.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.(Galatians 6:9)








Morning Prayer
"Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee" (Psalm 143:8).
To me this is a beautiful and meaningful prayer with which to start the day. It is very simple, with two requests and two declarations, yet it can reach the very heart of God.
Because we trust in His Word, we hear Him speak through it, as we read it at the beginning of the day. And as we hear Him speak, we rejoice again in His loving-kindness, especially in saving our souls and guiding our ways.
Then we ask Him for clear guidance in the way in which we should walk today.
"Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness" (Psalm 143:10). God will "cause to know the way wherein should walk" by the Holy Spirit, if we sincerely desire to know and to follow His will, and to be led in the paths of righteousness. He will never lead us, of course, in any path contrary to His revealed Word. "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Psalm 119:105).
But when He is given all priority in our lives, when we love and study and obey His Word, and when we sincerely call on Him for daily guidance in His will, He will surely answer. "In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths" (Proverbs 3:6). "This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us: And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him" (I John 5:14-15).