Share your thoughts

With some of my daily struggles right now, I'm also learning some new insights. Let me share them with you. :)

Right now, I have a 7 month old with an ear infection who has not been sleeping well as most babies with ear infections don't. He's been averaging 4-6 hours of sleep each night for a couple nights now. I have a 2 year old, with an ear infection in both ears, who was up for 3 hours in the middle of the night on Saturday night. I have a 4 year old with a slight cold in her eye. With all that, plus being at church 5 days a week, all I can say is I'm a little exhausted.

All of this got me thinking about Romans 12:1 and Proverbs 31. "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship." Also in Proverbs 31 about the wife of noble character... "She gets up while it is still dark" and "her lamp does not go out at night."

So, I'm finding myself getting up before the sun to tend to my kids and get things ready for the day. I'm serving the Lord by serving at church (a lot lately). :) I'm teaching my kids more about God and schooling each day. I'm staying up past the kids bedtime to do chores and get the house ready for the next day. All of this on top of children not sleeping is making me very exhausted and tired. However, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

I'm wondering and thinking that maybe the part of being exhausted and tired is part of being a living sacrifice to God?... I feel like it could be if I don't go about complaining about it and just embrace it as the phase of life we're in right now.

Thoughts on this....???