Five minutes? I can handle that as my youngest naps and my middleman plays Mario Cart reads quietly by my side.
Joining with Lisa Jo from The Gypsy Mama for her awesome meme “Five Minute Friday”. The rules are that we don’t worry so much about editing or being sure that it’s “perfect”.
We just write.
She speaketh my languageth.
This week’s word is: AWAKE…(But I’m changing mine to “AWAKEN”)
GO.
I awaken to the wonder of my dear friends traveling to Ghana and then thankfulness. Thankfulness that I did indeed decide to stay home for this one though my heart yearns to walk the dirty streets and see the goats that roam, to hear the thick, tribal accents and eat Jollof rice and chicken.
Coffee emanates heavily in the air and I thank again, quietly singing its praises.
I put one foot on the floor. It is 6 a.m. and once again, I didn’t get enough sleep. I curse my night owl ways.
Four inches fell last night and it’s lovely and again I thank for unexpected beauty.
I can’t explain why but when presented with the last minute chance to travel that 13 hour trip to visit a piece of my heart who now calls Africa home, I hear Him.
I hear Him after I look at plane tickets. I hear Him after I work through details. As I’m trying to arrange care and logistics for three young children who need to be here and need to be there at certain times and need lunches packed and laundry done and all of the other things that come with this job.
I hear Him loud and clear.
“This job is what you are called to do right now” He says. “This is your CURRENT mission field. Ghana can wait.”
I can’t explain why the overwhelming urge to be home washed over me like a tidal wave but it did.
So I trust and stay the course of the first mission that I’ve always longed to fulfill.
Motherhood.
STOP.
This is great! Yes! It is where we are meant to be. Home. with our kiddos. Such truth here! Proud of you for staying home and not going on the grand adventure of traveling!
I too have heard God speak to me like that. In the middle of the night when the baby wouldn’t sleep and I was worried about all the things I thought I should get done the next day to be that perfect wife, mom, church volunteer, etc. but how can I when this baby has me up all night??? And He said, ” Your place is here with your baby. Don’t worry about what anyone thinks.” Can’t argue with God!!
you go girl! africa sits there and has many who can go there. your children have only one mom! these years will fly be…faster than imaginable!
That’s what I am working through right now – saying goodbye to my current mission field of preschool and waiting to say hello to my new one as mommy to a little guy who will need a little extra care. But it’s good. Because it’s all for Him.
Motherhood ministry is a calling and one that I find many women feeling guilty for embracing. I came to see that my children are both lost and in need of a Savior. They are, in my life, the closest non-believers I know and they are, like you said, my mission field. Thank you for the reminder.
Yes! I hear Him! He is whispering similar things to me….all the other “go deeds” can wait….He is calling me to my mission as Mother. My first job. I pray for the peace to obey and be a good servant.
Oh, Natalie, so good to be back in touch. I love this entry and you are so wise to know that you are right where you need to be at this time. There will be so many of these same opportunities long after these babes are “grown and gone.” Believe you me, I know. I should have said no more times than I did when mine were little, but thank goodness, His grace was sufficient.
Blessings to you my friend and I’ll be back soon!
Natalie, I hear you on this one. When we have a ‘passion’ and it seems it’s not attainable due to something as wonderful as caring for your darlings it causes tension inside. If the Lord wants you physically there He will find away to get you there. I see my sis who runs an orphanage with her husband in Uganda being pulled all of the time as she is taking care of her babes here in the states and husband going back and forth between trying to make a living for his own children. The Lord? He put this desire within you……