I don't spend hours on the 'net gambling, looking at internet porn, checking out how to make terrorist bombs. I don't get prescription drugs sent to my door to be consumed or fed to my children. I don't plunge myself in to debt shopping on e-bay and various other stores (tempting though it may be sometimes!) or engage in illicit affairs over chat.
I check out encouraging blogs, do Bible study, Blog myself, research homeschooling, find people who need praying for, keep in touch with family and friends, research home management techniques. All good things! But not great things.
Holding my babies is a great thing, talking to them, reading to them, teaching them, loving them. Keeping a welcoming and loving home for my family is a great thing. Talking to my husband is a great thing!
Good things are, well, good. Until they get in the way of great things.
I have known women who turned their children outside in the cold wearing grubby, days old clothing and nappies near hanging off the little ones - so they could clean house. I have known women who sent their children to another room for weeks on end to pretty much go feral while they researched homeschooling. I have known women who constantly refuse their husbands advances, or even requests for company and conversation, to finish crafts or construct a new home management book. All of these women took pride in being a submissive wife and loving mother and described it as a calling of God. The reality was much different though. The reality was frightening. Good drowning out the great, and becoming bad.
It shocks me how easy it can be to slide down that road.
So right now, I am going to put aside this good thing until tomorrow and help my daughter with her school work.
What great thing will you do today?
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I let go of any hope of "doing school" today to help and enjoy AJ before putting him on a plane out of town.
After that we visited my grandparents and great Aunt and Uncle with the children. Outings like that are hard, but such a blessing. That one thing was my goal today and by the Lord's grace we accomplished it.
Oh! And I took the kiddos out to ice cream BEFORE dinner!!!
(yeah, it was a bit of an interesting bed time tonight;-P)
Sobering insight~!!
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