I have been sick this week and mad at myself for being so. I finally have some drive to get to some unfinished projects around the house and I get hit with a nice little cold. Nothing gets done.
So I think.
Seeing that I'm sick the older kids have done the teaching with my littles. It comes naturally because they see me do it everyday. They only need a bit of guidance and a word from mom from time to time.
Once again, the lessons I planned are not the lessons He had for us this week. I will rest and not rush after the planned work. God will provide its appointed time.
I have posted this before. It is worth repeating:
Do Not Rush. Trust. And Keep a Quiet Heart.
I think I find most help in trying to look on all the interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over ones' work. Then one can feel that perhaps one's true work--one's work for God--consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one's day. It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day--the part one can best offer to God. After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it.
--Annie Keary, 1825-1879
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