I didn't know what to write about being still. I don't know how to be still at this point in my faith and life journey. I am trying and am very aware of my inability to practice my stillness right now. It is a practice but, with a new baby, a toddler, and a life full of activities and a house that is never clean, I just can't stop. I need to be still in my life. I need to be still with my sons. One of my goals this year is more focused play time with my older son. I admit, I am not good at playing with him. I am a stay at home mom that can't stop doing the other things that come with mothering. I am constantly telling him "I will play with you right after I do (insert activity/chore/computer thing here). It is not fair to him. In the movement of my life I am forgetting the priority. It is to be still. Why? Because my sons are not. They are growing and learning everyday and I need to be still with them so I don't miss anything.
Lindy,
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Above & Beyond. We are ALL guilty of what you described. It's so nice to have a vast community of mothers online who can encourage one another to be still. :) I look forward to other 'still' Mondays. Bless you!
Oh thank you so much for sharing this. My kids are 6 and 8 and I felt the same way when they were little and I"m still doing it! I did not have a laptop and my cell phone only dialed a phone number and that was it and I still found tons of ways to fill up my days and not play with them!!! It is a HUGE struggle of mine. When I play games with them I'm tweeting on my iPhone...how bad is that??? Have a blessed week! ONG
ReplyDeleteI thought this prayer might help:
ReplyDeleteO Lord, my heart is not lifted up,
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
my soul is like the weaned child that is with me.
O Israel, hope in the Lord
from this time on and forever more.
- Psalm 131
There is something beautiful about our children seeing us still. I've been convicted of this more and more as my children grow older. I want them to recognize the need to sit and be calm when they are adults and parents.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing.
I think as mothers we all feel inadequate sometimes, I know I do! Its hard to charish all of the moments when there are so many things going on around us. To be still is good council. There is a hymn at my church that says, "Be still my soul, and the Lord thy God shall lead thee, and take thee by the hand and give thee answer to thy prayers". It is true that when we are still we will know what we can do to be better mothers. Thanks for this post!
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