a monday smoothie

instead of mentioning
how elusive
endurance
feels to me today
(the hamster wheel called
‘CleanUpTheHouseYetAgain.
and Again.
and Again.
and then after you go to sleep now,
you’ll wake up and
DoTheSameTomorrow’
is getting the best of me),

here’s what is feeding me on this
rainysnowy monday morning,
when said hamster wheel
threatens to make me want
to throw up my hands and
shake my head slowly
(and then sit down and cry.
theoretically, of course).

remember when elisabeth elliot
quoted that poem when she spoke at
calvary baptist several years ago
and the 2nd para. goes:

“do it immediately,
do it with prayer,
do it reliantly,
casting all care…”

and then combine that with
amy carmichael’s poem where
she gently says,
“…make me like thy clear air
through which unhindered, colors pass…”

and the most powerful help,
christ’s example,
‘for the Son of Man
did not come to be served,
but to serve…’

if my kids can see me face
the everyday responsibilities
(privileges?) by resting in
the power of one who
was humiliated on my behalf,
who served more than i will ever
be called on to serve,
and did so faithfully…

okay, i’ll give it a go,
Again.

let me clean it up
for my mathematically-inclined husband:

honey, today’s equation reads like this:
elis. e + amy c + scripture =
a holy spirit perseverance smoothie special

(maybe the scripture should
go in the mixer first?)

ps – go, giants!