As the Lord gave me
the grace this morning I woke up to commune with my Father above and afterwards
I obeyed His voice to write. Dear reader
I have been so behind in keeping in touch here and one of the main reasons is I
just didn't think anyone was reading.
However I got a message from someone saying she would like to hear from
me again and I met with someone who ever since I told her about my blog has
read every post and is waiting for more.
She even gave me ideas on how to keep up.
You see as children of
God, we sometimes tend to forget our assignments. I was concerned about my effort being wasted
rather than focusing on the One who asked me to write. So I let all the different things which pull
me from different ends pull me away from writing; so many excuses, so many
projects how do I cope?
What is a homemaker
doing? He/she must have all the time in
world. It is very common belief about
homemakers that we are lazy. Wow! Maybe some are, but not all. A few weeks ago, I was asked by a friend if I
could do a literature review for him in one and a half days, hmmmm. I am a slow reader and hence a slow writer
and according to my pace I need just about one and a half days to think about
my structure while I am researching and reading. If I were single, well I could try to rustle
something up after a few cups of coffee and some all-night work, a few hours of
sleep and work again. But the reality is
I am not single. I cannot honestly tell
you how many hours I have to myself within one and a half days especially while
the children are on holiday. I cannot
predict that they will definitely cooperate with me by keeping quiet either to
watch television or by keeping themselves busy.
They might just decide that they want my full attention for that day and
they will frustrate all my plans to work.
To their beautiful minds, “we want to play with mummy today”. So my 2 year old daughter would insist on
sitting on my laps while I am writing and of course that wouldn't be just for
her to watch me but to be part of the writing.
Then of course my 4 year old son wouldn't want to be kept out of the
action. In the bid to be helpful they
might just break something. In the bid
to keep themselves busy they might leave the tap running and flood the bathroom. Something funny might just happen which may
not be funny at the time it is happening.
So, unfortunately as juicy as the proposed topic for the literature
review was I just could not take it. So
are my children an excuse for not getting stuff done? Well I will talk more about that in another
post. However what I would like to leave
with you dear reader are the following;
God has an assignment
for us all (the homemaker included) and there is a vacuum being felt when you
don’t do what you are supposed to do.
Don’t focus on your efforts but on the One who sent you.
Secondly, if you have
a misconception that all homemakers are lazy, please think again. If you are single, I would advise you not to
judge because you might just find yourself in that position and you will feel
sorry for the way you have judged others.
