Mama Mondays

Mom - I love this reflection from Sarah Bessey. It's no small thing...  💛 The snow began falling on Sunday night while we slept. I woke up on Monday morning to heavy snow blanketing the neighborhood brown lawns and spindly trees, the streetlights illuminating the still-falling flakes. It was all beautiful again. Our sixteen-year-old and I suited up for the shoveling of the driveway and walks. My husband travels a lot for work right now and I forgot how to get the snow blower going, so manual labor it was. We shoveled steadily in the pre-dawn darkness together, alongside our neighbors, exchanged mittened-hellos to each other and kept clearing sidewalks together. I made an appointment with the physiotherapist later for the inevitable toll this will take on me. It’s no small thing to do this work. When I sent the younger two off to school at last in the weak light of morning, they were bundled up with boots on their feet, scarves around their necks. We had to buy new gear this winter...

 

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12NMGC5YjYY This song has been on repeat in my mind lately---  may it be an encouragement and prayer for you on this Monday... From the love of my own comfort From the fear of having nothing From a life of worldly passions Deliver me O God From the need to be understood And from a need to be accepted From the fear of being lonely Deliver me O God Deliver me O God And I shall not want, no, I shall not want When I taste Your goodness, I shall not want When I taste Your goodness, I shall not want From the fear of serving others Oh, and from the fear of death or trial And from the fear of humility Deliver me O God Yes, deliver me O God And I shall not want, no, I shall not want When I taste Your goodness I shall not want No, I shall not want, no, I shall not want When I taste Your goodness I shall not want When I taste Your goodness I shall not want I shall not want I shall not want -Audrey Aussad