Do you make resolutions at the end of each year for the coming New Year?
Some years I do, others it passes and I realize I haven’t thought about it at all.
Each year however, the thing that I desire most is a feeling of balance.
So I set out to create systems and ways to feel more balanced, and organized.
But it didn’t really help change how I felt inside.
At the end of each day, week, I felt like I had not accomplished what I had set out to, which created
frustration and discontentment. I began to see that what I was truly craving was peace.
Peace for me came in the form of my faith in God, accepting today as it is, and living one day at a time.
Wow.
Sounds like I have got the unbalanced thing beat, I don’t. Not at all.
But by keeping things in perspective, taking better care of myself, and relying upon a wonderful,
beautiful group of friends sisters I am not alone in this whole Mom-who-feels-tired-and-just-wants-to-sleep thing.
I don’t have to be perfect, and that is so freeing. [Read more…]