Quiet time

For the past week I have had two out of three sick kids in my house. Let me tell you, kids get sick at the most inconvenient times. During this week of lack of rest and craziness I became overwhelmed. Not surprising! I felt so disorganized. Anyone that knows me well knows I love my schedules, my clean house, my work being organized and my time on my blog. Fortunately for me God loves to throw a wrench in my organization, I guess He has a sense of humor. I learned the last few days, as my daughter was feeling better and I got surprised with my son starting to break out with a high fever, that regardless of what is going on in our lives we need to remain with peace and not allow our to do lists to overwhelm us. After all, through all circumstances we need to be thankful and meditate on the great blessings we have received and rekindle the assurance that God has our back. Everything has a purpose and God uses all circumstances for our good even when we initially don't see what He is trying to do. I realized after being tired and moody because of my lack of rest that despite how I was feeling I could make a choice to not allow how I felt affect how I would react. Sometimes you need to be given a motive to wake up your faith. Everything in our society teaches us that everything is normal, well sometimes if not all the times there is a gray area and in that gray area is the awakening of our faith. What man cannot do for us, God Can! It is through experiences that bring us to our knees and complete emotional and physical exhaustion that we cry out to God and He truly renews our strength and brings solution to our problems.