**Note** I wrote this post last week.
Too much, that’s what!
So..yeah….
Believe it or not, things are actually slowing down a little bit for me. And boy am I glad!
This week, my focus is on
- Educating my kiddos :)
- Operation Christmas Child – community meeting
- Homeschool Convention, yeah!!!!!
So, number one, you already know :) Number two, is new to me this year. We are having a community-wide meeting for Operation Christmas Child. The idea is to build awareness about OCC in our community. So, if you live nearby and would like to join us, let me know! Number three, homeschool convention, yeah!!! The biggest yeah for this one is that I get to spend 3 days and 2 night ALONE with Mr. OverKill, in a hotel. I don’t have to cook, clean, educate, make snacks for, get the jelly please mom, open the jelly please mom, or referee anyone!!!
**Note to my friends who are attending conference – DON’T MAKE ME REFEREE THIS WEEKEND! Love ya!**
In the midst of all of this the Lord is teaching my that I need to be placing my expectations on Him. By this, I mean that I expect certain people will do certain things. Why? Lots of reasons, because they are adults, because they are Christians, because they are parents, children, siblings….the list goes on and on. Instead I need to put my expectations on the Lord…..I need to wait on Him and see how he will work things out. Which is really hard for me to do.
1 I said, “I will guard my ways,
Lest I sin with my tongue;
I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle,
While the wicked are before me.”
2 I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me;
While I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue: Psalm 39:1-3
That about sums up how I have been feeling! My expectations were making me angry…. yet I need to be silent before men, and instead of speaking to men, I need to pray to the Only One who can cause change in men’s hearts.
expectation
Synonyms: hope, anticipation, belief, expectancy, prospect, probability, suspense, bated breath
Hmmm…. hope, belief… where am I to place my hope, my belief, my expectations?
LORD, make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.
5 Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
6 Surely every man walks about like a shadow;
Surely they busy themselves in vain;
He heaps up riches,
And does not know who will gather them.
7 “And now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
9 I was mute, I did not open my mouth,
Because it was You who did it. Psalm 39:4-9
Verse 6 says, “what do I wait for” put it this way “what am I expecting”…..”My hope is in you” “My expectations are in you”….
I need to remember that I am but a vapor, and my expectations about others are less than a vapor. I need the Lord to close my mouth. But not only my mouth, I need Him to quiet my mind, and help me to place all my expectations/hopes on Him.
When I do this, I find such freedom and joy! The Lord removes those burdens from my heart which cause bitterness and anger, when I choose to put my hope and expectation on Him.