Count Your Many Blessings

Today was a 'count your many blessings' day. I was so spiritually edified in every meeting at church and it was well needed. I was in a drought, if you will.. not by the Lord's will, but by me not seeing my many blessings. Satan is great at discouraging me like that. As a mother, I feel as if we're consistently trying to do our best to love our children and rear them in righteousness no matter how frustrated we can become.. and my OCD does not help the matter either, because if I don't have everything 'just so' the way I pictured it, I become more frustrated. Why is it as young women we always dreamed of growing up marrying the most perfect person, and life wasn't ever hard and we lived in shiny castles with pretty ponies, and we had perfect children that always looked adorable and never got dirty?? Wow. then reality sets in and we realize that we, our kids, nor family are perfect. And the minute we are not holding up that perfect image, life begins to crumble...which is so silly. What a waste of time. life is the way it is, because its the way God intended it to be, and that we are all here to learn and grow from each other. We are here to learn how to become perfect.. that's why today was so great.. I had a wonderful reminder that as long as we are striving and continually trying to be better then we were the day before, that is all God asks of us. He knows that we aren't perfect, and as long as we try to be near him and be prayerful in all we do, it'll be okay. Our house doesn't have to be spic and span, and its okay to ask for help. I'm always trying to be super women...but as I do, I start hating the whole process and lose sight of what matters.. Letting my family help is a great thing, and if I do it lovingly they will learn to love helping me when I ask. I love my Heavenly Father for answering all my prayers today. It was a wonderful and eye opening day. Sorry for the novel.. I just had to let it out.. because 'my cup runneth over' as my mama says... :) Which I think it the perfect saying, it perfectly describes all the love we feel from Heavenly Father and our families... because their, and His love does runneth over. It never ceases to exist. Which is a beautiful thing. :)