Marsha's Musings: Ever feel so tired you could drop?

I am exhausted tonight. Two road trips in less than two weeks and over four days gone from my home, three and half to help my mom and dad recover from recent medical problems and an evening and a whole day traveling with my husband for his work to help keep him awake on the roads plus all the daily stuff....it all adds up to just being plain too tired to move.

I really long for just five days in a row where I don't have to go anywhere, but that won't happen for at least another six years or more.

Yesterday while I was sitting in a supervisor's office in some strange CSO in another city miles away from home, trying to entertain myself and my son while my husband was in his meetings, I read some more in Jerry Bridge's Respectable Sins book. I read the chapter on Unthankfulness. Wow. It hits me where I live. He says we are commanded to be thankful in all circumstances.

This is difficult for me when I am so exhausted. But that's what Scripture says. "Give thanks in all things, for this is the will of God..." This might be a paraphrase as I don't have my Bible handy right now. But that is the meaning of it if not the exact words.

Ok, so what I can I give thanks for....

1. My husband has a job and supports his family faithfully
2. I have a husband
3. That I homeschool and it affords me the flexibility to be able to travel with my husband so he can attend his meetings
4. That God gives me the strength I need to travel with him.
5. That I can get all kinds of reading done while sitting at the office waiting...reading that I normally do not have time for at home
6. That sometimes while waiting for him I am able to find good bargains at nearby thrift shops or dollar stores on things I will use and need.
7. That it gives me a break from the monotony of the daily grind
8. That God teaches me new things about Him and my relationship to him in the reading I bring along.
9. That God has kept us safe on the roads
10. That we get to stop in and visit my parents regularly to see how they are doing.