The Circus I Made

This is me... I'm going to wear down soon and just fall over wherever I'm at!

I don't know why I do this to myself.  Why do I make my life like a circus?  Here's what this week entailed:

• Blogging for 35+ hours.
• Taking care of 3 children who may or may not have been sick still.. puking was involved.
• Desktop computer crashed.
• Because the computer crashed we lost our very expensive software for the funeral home.
• Ordered new software and spent quite a while on the phone with the company installing it.
• Because of the computer crash, have had to manually make all of our funeral folders which takes a long time.
• Vacation Bible School: Music, Missions and helping with 5th and 6th graders.  Driving 30 miles to church and 30 miles home from church every night after VBS.  Because of other circumstances also spent most of the day there on Saturday and Sunday.
• Relay for Life is this Saturday so we had an early morning meeting this week and I've been emailing and calling and getting as many things ready as I can.
• Working on the church clean up flyers... we need people there to help.
• We have been sooo busy at the funeral home.  I am not complaining because that's how we afford to live, just unusually busy.
• It's only Friday.  The actual Relay for Life is tomorrow night from 6am to 6pm
• Get up on Sunday after having no sleep, take shower, teach Women's Sunday school class and then have VBS Family Day.  Work in the nursery on Sunday night.

Now, I'd like to tell you that this is just an unusually busy week for me and in some ways it is, but in other ways, it's not.  I am always, ALWAYS running full steam ahead.  THIS IS WHY I GET SO WORN DOWN!

Have you ever heard someone say, "It's okay to say, No!"?  I have heard it, I guess I just don't listen well. 

I was having some quiet time this morning and read in a book "Start Saying No".  It said that God's Word empower us when we read it and it gives us strength, but sometimes we have to say no to things. 

I am not called to be Super Mom, Super Wife or Super Christian.  I am not called to be the person who does everything while other sit and watch.  I am not called to run this circus I've created.  I am called to do my BEST in what God has called me to be and do and to do my best in the time He has given me.  Sometimes we get so busy serving Him and serving others that we forget to find rest in Him!  I am tired and I am weary.  I am going to try soooo hard next week to find rest in Him!  Maybe you're tired too.  If so, I hope you'll join me next week in rest!  I think we need it.  Next week, I'm going to let God be the ringmaster instead of trying to do so much in my own strength!  Consider this verse as you think about resting. 

Psalm 116:6-8

New King James Version (NKJV)

⁶ The LORD preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
⁷ Return to your rest, O my soul,
For the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

⁸ For You have delivered my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from falling.