Time.

52 minutes.

That’s all that is left on my laptop battery.

Quick what can I do in 52 minutes.

Well the list is actually endless. If you are a mother, you know that 52 minutes of uninterrupted time can have dinner cooked, dishes washed, laundry started, dogs fed, toys tidied, Facebook checked, Instagram updated and world hunger solved. 

Basically we are time sensitive machines who run our whole days off of what time we come and go and who is napping and who is pooping and when did they eat last.

But there is a nagging question in the back chasm of my clutter filled brain, 

does God require busy?

Is my job as a mother, to take my children to endless activities? 

To make sure they have seen and done every Christmas activity because if they don’t they might resent me when they are 50 and then I will have another issue to add to the Mom Guilt pile…

You know you have one too…the Mom Guilt pile.

And I really have to say that I wholeheartedly believe 

that God does not require us as mothers to be busy.

He does not require busy.

Your children do not need you to be busy.

He needs us to be diligent.

Diligence is, “careful and persistent work or effort.”

Yes.

That is exactly what is required of us… breathe it in a minute 

and let it sink in and repeat it a few times in your head.

We as mothers are required to be persistent at mothering these 

wild children who pull on every nerve at any time of day. 

Who kiss us with peanut butter kisses and who cry for us at night.  

Who have the same tantrum, over the same miniscule thing that really doesn’t matter. 

Who beg for our attention when we get too busy, being busy.

HE requires us to work carefully to protect the tiny hearts and pray for the little souls, so that at the end of their salvation journey , when we are standing with the hosts of heaven, we can enter our children in to be a part of an eternal kingdom. 

Yes!

Mothers, this is our job. To be careful and not busy. To not fill time with this’s and that’s.  Not to run your life in a chaos of needing things, and going places and trying to create a false identity of what you think a life should be.

But rather, let us carefully and honestly and with as much effort as {sleep and} our children allow…and lets do this.

Lets be diligent instead of busy.

Careful instead of hasty.

Mothers, let us not allow the enemy take our time from us…

AMEN.