Tonight I finished up fixing the cheese cake and cleaning the kitchen, then sat down with a cup of peppermint tea to watch what remained of Ella Enchanted with the rest of the family.
Now I am eyeing the clock and thinking I need to get off this computer and call the family together for evening devotions and prayer before we all head off to bed and start all over again tomorrow.
In my Bible reading yesterday, Jesus tells his disciples to come aside to a solitary place and rest because they have been so busy they didn't even have time to eat. I have been feeling this way for several weeks and I think it has had a hand in my headaches and exhaustion. As I read this, I took it as a command from Jesus that I should be finding time alone to rest. This something I really need to do.
I remember reading in one of my homeschool magazines an article that basically said it is a myth that moms should think they need ME-time. The article said that once you get some "me-time" then you want more and more of it and become more frustrated by the lack of it. I gathered the writer was advocating not even trying to find time to rest and renew alone. I was surprised by this in light of what Jesus says to His disciples:
Mark 6:30 ¶ Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told Him all things,
both what they had done and what they had taught. 31 And He said to them,
"Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." For there were
many coming and going, and they did not even have time to eat. 32 So they
departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves.
I find the writer of the homeschool article off base. I think she is advocating a prescription for burnout. If Jesus saw the need for rest and for his disciples to rest, then why shouldn't we also go aside to a deserted place and rest a while too?
2 comments:
As I was rereading this post, I have to say that it's all in the attitude. If a mom is going out for "me-time" with a selfish attitude of I deserve this and then coming back bent out of shape because she comes back to the same dirty house and sink full of dishes, then taking time out isn't going to work for her but against her. But if she is taking time out to renew, to get her perspective straightened out, to spend time with the Lord and desires to glorify Him in what she does, then she will come back renewed and ready to dig in to the chores at hand because her attitude will be right. It's all in the attitude and perspective. We moms DO need time out to refill our tanks, so to speak, but it's all in the attitude, now it affects us.
I think there is a balance. I seem to be saying that lots lately! Only God can help us find it. Too much busy and too little busy, neither are good. :-)
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