Something happens on the weekends. Our schedule gets turned sideways. We want to sleep in. We have chores that need doing, but the kids fight them, so we fight with the kids. There are errands to run, and sometimes sports games or piano recitals. And then there's Sunday, with church, meetings, firesides and exhaustion. All of this results in Monday mornings where I busily slide everyone out the door and then sit and wonder what happened to our house, what happened to our weekend? A common casualty of this weekend whirlpool is our family scripture study. We do okay getting into a groove during the week--there is resistance and some fighting, but by Friday things are almost non-ugly. Then Saturday with its schedule-lite comes and more often than not scriptures get forgotten and then Sunday with early meetings, church, naps, firesides etc and we have forgotten again. And then it's Monday, and we are at the beginning again, with resistance and fighting and ugly. I keep reminding myself that trying is worth something. We keep trying. But I get so discouraged that we can never seem to keep our groove.
Something amazing happened this weekend. When the Spirit whispered to me on Saturday, "now would be a good time for scriptures," we read them. When we were almost ready to leave for church on Sunday, again the Spirit whispered, "what about now?" And so we did. The whirlpool still happened. My house is trashed, but scriptures this morning were a marvel to me. Everyone came with a minimum of difficulty. There was no ugly. People followed along. We kept our groove. Amazing. There really is something to that consistency argument you always hear. We did not miraculously morph into a family of erudite scriptorians just because we didn't let the habit die over the weekend. But we kept our groove. Amazing what a couple of days can do when you don't entirely lose them!
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Too familiar. It's the keep on trying that makes us successful. It happens. It's a process. It doesn't happen over night. It's amazing how often the Spirit really does step in to help us.
Loved your comment on my last post. :) It all has to start somewhere you know? But just a tiny start is a huge leap. Thanks for sharing.
Ahhh. Where did my comment go?
Stick with it. It's a process. The trying over and over again is what makes you successful....with the promptings of the Spirit. Loved it. I need to listen more.
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