Know Thyself

Yesterday, I shared about the book I was reading, A Family of Value, and the author, John Rosemond's, take on so much expert material available to us making us nervous Nellies as it were.

Well today, I want to share something that I learned about myself recently. It begins before recently. I like blogging and I like reading blogs. If you were to look at my MyYahoo page you will find quite a few blogs feeding their titles and first sentences to my desktop regularly. You would also find that most of them are not blogs of my friends or blogs of people telling anecdotes about their lives. Nope, those blogs are other women telling me how to be more intentional, or more professional in my motherhood.

Before these blogs, I would not have really thought about intentionality or professionalism or mission statements in relation to the way I go about my life. But these women do, so I must too! Or so I thought. In my thinking too much, I lost track of my very nature. I don't do well in the world of deliberate. I struggle in the land of planned. I find I can't breathe on the Island of professional motherhood.

Striving to do those things, in my life, takes my eyes off of the One who created me and these children and firmly on the list. So when things go wrong I don't roll with the punches well. And before intentional, professional motherhood with mission-statements, goals, and prioritized to-do lists entered my world I could roll having fun while doing it.

If you want to know the story behind the revelation and see a tree on my house, you can find it here.

Incidentally when I told Chris I thought it would be wiser for me (an education major) to buy planned curriculum for our homeschooling instead of planning it myself, he agreed. Saying I never imagined you a lesson-planning type of teacher. I must embrace it. Now for someone to tell my dear brother-in-law planning a weekend to see another brother-in-law graduate graduate school in six weeks. We have a place to stay. I'm good.