You Can Have it All, Sister!

I'm not sure who sold it to me, but I bought it. Hook, line, and sinker. I bought the notion that I could have everything. With balance, I could control my destiny. I could have everything, but what does that mean?

As a young woman, I had two very different visions of myself as a woman. I would be a business woman taking over a big company. In those dreams, I was single, no family, no one allowed close. Or, I would be a mother, with several children, always surrounded by family. I would be poorer, monetarily, in those dreams.

Now, I find myself stuck in the middle of those two visions. I have a GREAT husband. We minister to youth. We have no children. We're rich when compared to the poverty line. I am sometimes confused between the professional woman who works until she drops and the family woman who chooses family above all else. This is not how I envisioned things.

So, back to the poorly purchased belief system. This morning, I got up early and exercised, had my coffee, waxed, got into the office about an hour earlier than I had the day before. It appeared that things were together. I jumped in at the office with both feet.

In order to get to the place where I have it together (almost) at the office, the dishes still sit in the sink and the lava in "Laundry Mountain," as my sister calls it at her house, is pushing up through the fault lines and growing each day.

I bought the notion, but I can't live it out. Is there anyone who can? I have met some who this appears to be true about. However, they were no more at peace or rested than myself.

Once, I heard a woman say that we CAN have it all. We just can't have it all…at the same time. AHA! That is the ticket. I want to have it all right now and it be easy to balance. It doesn't work that way. I know this without a doubt. We must consider that the life we are living out, though not necessarily what we imagined, has great potential. I think my life is better than what I envisioned, but I didn't picture it being so hard to live out!

Hang in there, sisters. Hang on. It is a wild ride in God's Kingdom…even when the laundry isn't done; we get to be right in Christ!

Consider this in closing: "His divine power has given us everything
we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." 1 Peter 1:3 And this from an impulsive and impetuous guy (a guy like me!).