A Benchmark Weekend

Last week and weekend were very busy for me. Busy is nothing new for me. However, this particular week, I was trying to clean house (like...REALLY clean), homeschool, go on field trips, teach a class at church, and the list goes on and on and on. Plus all the regular stuff I do every day. The weekend promised to be insanely busy. Samuel's last baseball game of the season, plus his end of the season pizza party. Lauren's dress rehearsal and recital. We had family coming in from out of town, so I decided to celebrate Libby's birthday almost two weeks early. So Thursday evening, I got a call from my mom that her car broke down and she wouldn't be able to come. After that, her phone died and I couldn't call her. Friday morning, I was taking my morning walk, and was praying. I decided I would just go get my mother, because my kids would be heartbroken as they were counting on their granny being there. And maybe I wanted my mama. What of it? I called my sister, who went to my mom's and had her call me on her phone. I realized I wasn't finished cleaning, hadn't bought groceries, had to drive an hour and a half one way to get my mother and be back in time to get Samuel from school, and the anxiety started to mount. I gave all my concerns to God, and what happened next was astounding. He told me that not only was this weekend going to be ok, but that it was going to be a benchmark by which I measured all other weekends. And it was. I got my mom, got back on time, enjoyed his ballgame, got everywhere I needed to go on time the whole weekend, and enjoyed my family. One part that stands out as miraculous, is that Libby sat in either my lap, or Jeremy's lap the whole time during Lauren's recital, and was as quiet as you could possibly expect an almost two year old to be. She did sing along a bit, though. Such a sweet time with my loved ones. So when anxiety is mounting, and circumstances are piling up, but you don't feel like they're important enough to take to God...He cares. About all of it. Let Him love you like the good daddy He is.