I read your emails with a heavy heart. A break-in at a “safe” house. Donors falling through. No money for food. Girls that want to go back.
I hear it in your voices even though you’re a world away.
You are weary.
The road you’re on is uphill all the way. It’s often lonely, too. After all, you can’t change the world if you’re living just like it.
Setbacks make you wonder if all of this is worth it. This giving of everything you have, this giving of yourselves.
I know how it feels to wonder if all your work is worthless. Moms grow weary, too.
We see the same struggles day after day, fight the same battles tomorrow that we thought we won today.
It’s easy to want to hide in a closet with a cup of coffee and hope they’ll sort it out themselves.
But we can’t give up.
“Because at the proper time we WILL reap a harvest.”
I believe it. The harvest will come. In my life and yours.
“So let us NOT grow weary…”
Run to the one who gives strength. Let him renew you as you hope in him. Mount high on the wings he gives you. Do not faint as you face the future.
Trust the God who gave you this task to provide all you need to do it.
“Let us not grow weary in doing good for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9
I’m joining Five Minute Friday this week, and I hope you will, too! Even if you don’t write, visit Kate’s site and read all the wonderful free writing.
Whew! Needed this! I can get so bogged down in the weariness of raising a human. We’re at the stage when the fun “first steps” are over and we’re parenting social skills and behaviors. So essential but so tiring. Focusing on the harvest and remembering that it’s all worth it…. Thanks for this encouragement! (Visiting from FMF)
Right there with you right now! Thanks for stopping by!
Great post. It is hard sometimes to keep plugging away. Keeping an eye on the bigger picture and remembering to turn to God for strength is definitely the way to go. 🙂 – Sarah from Five Minute Friday
“Trust the God who gave you this task to provide all you need to do it.”
Just a great reminder that each of our moments is a divine appointment to fulfill a task assigned by the ONE who equips us to complete it and face it with confidence
Thanks for sharing – from your FMF partner in writing
We all have our own varying degrees of weariness and stress. It is so great to know that each one of us can turn to the Lord at any time and He will lift us up!