Tired of me

It's Five Minute Friday at The Gypsy Mama! Yay! You probably already know but it's a chance to write your heart out for Five minutes, no editing, on a 1 word topic! Today the word was Tired!

Five Minute Friday: Tired


At this point in my life I have alot going on, and I LOVE it, but I have alot that I am juggling and tired is apparently a trigger complaining word to me.  Well when I think about it and consider having to write on it for 5 minutes. :/

When I think about the word my mind immidiately begins racing over tiny complaints that I am tired of, but then the Spirit of the Lord reminds me that these complaints are small in comparison to the surpassing Greatness of Knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and in Whom I would gladly give my life to share in the fellowship of His sufferings, (Phil. 3) and therefore how can I complain?


I am Tired of struggling with a negative heart and attitude. I am tired of viewing my little, passing, insignificant things as monumental and completely missing the Big Picture. I am tired of complaining over a broken fingernail and being too busy focused on my nail problem that I don't notice that my neighbor just lost her hand. Or even worse complaining that my overall perfectly healthy child has a cold and not giving thought to a neighbor who just misscarried.

I am tired of me getting in the way of being used by Him because I can't get my eyes off of me. :)

I pray that GOD uses my life to be the hands and feet of Jesus, and to do that, there's a Lot of me, that's got to be surrendered!

HIS Clay~

Melissa

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Relevant Days

It's Five Minute Friday!
If you haven't yet, hop on over to Gypsy Mama as we try to say in 5-mins. what we think about the word: Relevant

As I sit here and type I have a constant reminder of the little ones running around my feet. It's a wonderful, but hard stage of life. There is so much sweetness, so many cuddles, giggles and wrestling matches. I can't imagine that one day it will all end.

Yet, there are so many days I just want to curl up in a ball and cry, from all the commotion. 
The screaming, the fits, hollaring that they are hungry as they have food in their hands (I still don't understand that one) or looking for a moment of silence but the "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" never ends.

I don't know why so many of those days happen. I don't know why they seem to happen sometimes more often than others.

I can become so accustomed to the cuteness, that sometimes I don't see it as cute just "constant loudness."

I don't want to be that mom. I want my days to be relevant. These days are so fleeting and so shaping, these days Have to be Relevant.
I don't want to tell my son, "Ok in 5 mins we'll do..." and 3hrs go by and I completely forgot.

I don't want to daydream of doing things that never get done.  I want to look past the mess, look past the chores, close up the computer and ignore the to-do list. Step over the pile of dirty clothes and scoop up my tiny children, snuggle, cuddle and read. I want to laugh, roll around on the floor and play "Pixie Dust".

I will never regret that email that got over looked but I will miss these precious words coming from my children's mouth, this teeny tiny hiney (potty training) running naked around the house and these precious moments that get so easily passed by.

Lord, make our days Relevant with these precious children. May I never overlook or take forgranted these fleeting precious moments!

Don't Relent, Catch me

It's Five Minute Friday Ya'll: 

Lord, my hearts desire is for YOU to have my ALL. My life is Yours, it is surrendered and in YOUR hands. I pray that You will break me and use this simple vessel. I pray this broken life is pleasing in YOUR sight. Use my life to YOUR fullest extent! Lord, I beg of YOU to make this life leave YOUR legacy.  Place YOUR seal on my forehead, place YOUR love across my life. 

May Your grace pour from my lips and from this life.


Strengthen my resolve. Strengthen my faith. Help me to learn to trust, and LORD if I jump out in faith, teach me to Trust and know that YOU will catch me, as I walk by faith and not by sight!


I don't want to sit another day in my own flesh and on my comfy couch.  Lord I want to jump out in faith and know You're going to catch me. I want to dare to do the impossible in YOUR name and know that YOU'RE in full control of the outcome.  I want to see Your Glory revealed and for this generation to be the one to recognize Who YOU are! 

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Lord, I'm ready to experience a Holy Revival. I'm ready to leave my comfy cozy. Lord build my trust so I know that You're going to catch me. Build my faith so that I know You're right here with me. 

May I never take my moments forgranted, may each one be spent for Your glory. Make my life an instrument of YOU. Never for any gain of my own, may this life be poured radically out on YOUR behalf!  Make my thoughts Your thoughts. Make my will, Your will.  
May my life not rest until You have left Your legacy.  






YOUR Clay~