Tuesday, July 15th, 2025
Today is one of those days where I am starting my blog late at night on the night it is “due”. Holy Spirit asked me a question earlier in the day that I have been pondering, but if I’m being honest I am not sure I have come up with a good answer yet. While I was dragging myself through my to-do list He asked me, “How can you get better at living in the present and enjoying the gift that it is?” My flesh was too busy thinking about the two things I was trying to do at the same time and the three other things I wanted to do after that.
Lately it feels like I am not doing such a good job juggling all the house, garden and kitchen things I am supposed to be doing while also being a good mom and wife. I like to harvest as much produce and meat as I can, cook as much made-from-scratch as I can and even make as many beauty products as I can. But if I can’t enjoy the process as well as the product, what’s the use?
My husband and I have a new resolve to figure out this sabbath thing once and for all. We can see the effects of trying to run constantly, especially with young children. We have the faith that God can help us accomplish more in six days, with His help and blessing, than we could in seven days on our own. And you know who doesn’t like our new goal. The powers of darkness would love to keep us scrambling, thinking we got this work/life balance thing in check and that sabbath was just for those Old Testament folks that had nothing better to do. Wrong! The sabbath isn’t there just to be a rule, it’s there to benefit us. To help us recharge so we can really enjoy this land we are living in.
Final Thoughts…
I so want to get better at relishing every present moment that God has given me. He has put passions and desires in my heart, and He will give me the wisdom and strength to live them out. I want to learn how to shut my mind and body off for one day out of seven every week, so that I can rest in the present. And I want to learn how to work diligently and faithfully in the other six, trusting that God will give me all I need every moment of the day. I want to see every single moment in the present for the present that it is!