Reflections

The Gift of Morning

 I am not a morning person. I am thought to be a morning person because like every mother I get up at the crack of dawn with my children.


Before half a cup of coffee is finished, I have fed them, cuddled them, clothed them (most of the time!) and had a conversation about a cartoon on Treehouse TV, read a book and even sometimes changed more than one diaper within an hour.


Some would say I am an active morning person. This is not easy. I find the morning a struggle as some mothers do. I was being hard on myself regarding this.

Thoughts would creep into my head: “Most mothers would have the kitchen totally clean by now and the laundry washing.”

Then this morning I read, “A good man’s work is effected by doing what he does, a woman’s by being what she is.”
G.K Chesterton

The spirit has shown me that while housework isn’t my first task, I am attentive to God and my children. I have more time to meditate on Christ in the morning. I pray as I get breakfast for the kids. I am being present to God by being who I am in the morning and making space for him through caring for my children. If my children know that they come before laundry, then I am working for God. The laundry will get started today and I am committed to taking the pressure off of myself to be homemaker first instead of child/woman of God first.

Homemaking is one of the most rewarding experiences but not without starting the day inviting Jesus into our hearts and reconnecting with who we are.

And now, the laundry is waiting, my heart is full of the spirit of God and my little boy is smiling. Who I am is first and what I do is a refection of accepting that.

God Bless your mornings.

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