Learning to be Content

It's a gloomy day today. Cold, rainy, and wet. While everyone is complaining about the weather, I can say with confidence that I really enjoy days like today. I'm sitting here with a tea in my hand, the smell of brownies in the oven & dinner in the crockpot, listening to the sound of the rain pelting at the window. This gives me a chance to relax, catch up on some reading & baking, have snuggles on the couch with my kids and just enjoy being at home, being mom. Isn't it sad that I need a rainy day to force me to stay home? Had it not been raining I'd probably be carting the kids around doing who knows what!


Life is just so busy, my famous line is "I don't have time for anything else, buuuut maybe I could just find time for this one more thing." But really, who am I kidding? As my mother put it lately "Your only as busy as you make yourself", in that "I told you so" kind of voice. Its true. If I look at all the things I try to squeeze into one week, much less ONE DAY, I'm finding myself wondering...do I really need to make myself this busy? And what's the point anyways? I want my children to remember spending time together at home, not how many times mom loaded them up to take them here, there & everywhere!


So here's to trying something new. Not taking on too many things anymore, but rather just enjoying this season of life with my young kids. Trying to stay home a little more often, loving & nurturing my children the way God has called me to & being content with my priviledge of being a stay at home mom. After all, what my husband says makes sense, "Honey do you really love being gone all the time? I feel like we pay the mortgage on this house, but we're hardly in it!" 


There will be time down the road to do all those extra things I love when the kids are older & not needing me as much anymore (that time will come sooner than I could imagine I'm sure), so for now it's my chance to just enjoy the time I've been given with them and be a little more content just staying at home more often spending time with the ones I love most, my husband & children.


"I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:11-13


I think being content is being satisfied at whatever place in life God has us at, while trusting that he does have our best interest at heart and He does want to see us succeed. So I am trying to learn from the lessons that Paul did in Philippians, and be content in my present circumstances, while trusting that God is taking me from Glory to Glory.