Tomorrow?

James 4: 13-15

13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money." 14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wishes, we will live and do this or that." 

The message bible said in verse 14 "You don't know the first thing about tomorrow".  


We don't know the first thing about tomorrow, so why are we making plans for it?  


As a parent and a stay at home mom, I repeatedly say "tomorrow" or "after my list is done".  Once the list is done, I will get on the floor and play cars with the boys.  When this project is done, I will build the fort and actually get in it.  


But, I know nothing about tomorrow.  Why am I thinking there will be time tomorrow to play with my kids?  I don't know what could happen.  The boys could get a cold, we could end up needing groceries.  It doesn't have to be something terrible.  Tomorrow could be just as busy as today.  


My priorities need a restructuring and that's hard.  We see little signs that say "I have a messy house, dirty floors etc and happy kids".  Do we truly believe it though?  Or are I trying to be all things to all people first instead of the mother to my kids.  Am I'm trying to live up to expectations that only I have for myself?


Balance is a must.  Finding that spot where you can do just enough of the list and put the kids as your first priority knowing you will get more time later to finish.  Or, more importantly, as Joanna Weaver wrote in Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, "trusting that what doesn't get done isn't needed or is taken care of by God."  

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