I don't understand how a typical day could bring the anxiety and the load of guilt that today has brought. Anxiety when all three girls are vocalizing their unmet needs at the same time and my to-do list is growing twice as fast as tasks are getting checked off. Guilt when I'm doing laundry, guilty of not letting the dog in soon enough, guilty about being in sweatpants most of the day, eating chips at lunch time, playing too much and cleaning too little or cleaning too much and playing too little... I've learned I'm not the only young Mom who has days of struggling with chronic, low-grade, ambiguous guilt.
So I'm intentionally recalling a phrase I copied and traced over in my journal multiple times from a recent sermon at church, and maybe you need it too: "I am complete in Christ."
The housework will never be complete. The homemade dinner, couches free of laundry piles and babies with clean cheeks wearing more than a tshirt and diaper- that combination may not always be complete. But I'm complete in Christ, and by God's grace they will be too. That will be enough.
"For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power." Col 2:9-10
Now on to battle dirty dishes with a lighter heart, mommy warriors...
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