“WHAT REALLY MATTERS!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 681

April 30, 2024///

I do not know if it affects you like it does me, but I just look at the date and shake my head!

We are in the last day of the fourth month of this year, and it seems like the year has just begun.

The things I wanted to get done by this time are not done.

How many of you have said or thought, where did the time go? We say or think this about the year, our life, and even our day.

We start out the day with goals to accomplish before we call it a night and yet we find more times than not we are going to bed with unfinished task.

Sometimes our desire to get something done or accomplish goals makes us feel guilty when we rest or take a break to do something that relaxes us.

We have a list of things to do whether on paper or in our mind.

These thoughts brought forth a question I want to ask today!

What really matters?

The thing you are stressing about: what would happen if it did not get done?

Now I live in the real world, and I understand, children must be cared for, dressed, trained, and meals must be prepared, and clothes washed.

If I have a job I need to be there and do that job the best I can.

But we do not need to stress about being perfect in any of it. We are individuals! Our house may not be spotless or decorated like Better Homes and Gardens.

Our meals may not consist of fresh baked bread and food from scratch and cookies straight from the oven.

Our yard may not be full of beautiful flowers or our grass and bushes perfect. Our car may not be shiny and clean, and new!

We may not have certificates of achievement on our walls!

We may not give 65 hours a week to our job.

But what really matters?

Does our family feel our love and have our attention, or do they pick up our stress and think they have to be perfect? Are they free to discuss their day and situations they face, or do they know you are so busy getting things perfect that you cannot listen to them?

Do we take time to appreciate and love those in our lives and let the Love of Jesus flow freely through us? Do we play with our children or grandchildren or are we too busy doing what we feel is necessary?

What really matters?

One hundred years from now the only thing that will have mattered is the Love and Care you showed others. What do you do to show the Love of Jesus to those around you?

Your home is your Castle, does it feel like one of the castles we see on the TV that has everything in place, everyone looks great, and all things get done? Does it have that stiff, I am afraid I will not get it right, feeling?

Or is your castle like a cottage with warmth and peace and the freedom to be less than perfect? Is it a place where Love abounds and at the end of an exhausting day, those who abide there, can find rest and peace?

Yes, I believe the Bible where it says we can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives us strength. I believe we should do the best we can and do all things as unto the Lord Jesus. I believe we should do all things with an eternal perspective!

But we also need to grasp that He fills us with Joy and Peace and a Spirit of ease!

Jesus said come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest!

What really matters? What will have eternal value!

I encourage you on this last day of April, as you consider where the time has gone, to ask the creator God who loves you most, how you can do the task you must do today with a spirit of ease and peace. Release your day and all that you must get done to His Lordship and then do not stress about perfection.

Live in peace and let go the stress and leave all things in God’s capable, wonderful hands. Show love and make your house a real home of joy and peace!

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Father, in Jesus’ name I come. I thank you, that as we release all we do to your Lordship we can walk in a stress-free life, knowing you will show us the way. May we understand what will really affect generations to come and eternity. Fill each person who reads this with a Spirit of ease and let us walk in Faith, Victory, and Peace! You are God and with you all thing are possible. Amen!

Love, Me-Maw