Tamera Renee

Yesterday I had a little tantrum. It seemed that all the emotions, both bad and good, of the summer came crashing down on me. I just meandered around the house taking deep breaths and feeling distraught. Distraught that my kids are going back to school and life makes a big change for a mother. I don't know why it upsets me so. It just does. I just complained about everything and I managed to offend everyone in the house and then had to go back and say I am sorry. What a day, what a mess I was. I felt so bad at the end of the day. Now I sit here with just me and myself thinking, should I empty the dishwasher? Well, why there isn't anyone that needs a clean plate at the moment. Should I go shopping? We have everything we need I guess. Should I make the beds? We didn't do that all summer, why start now. Should I take the dog for a walk? He has trouble keeping up and I can't get that great of exercise that way. In 2 Corinth. 12:9 the Lord says to Paul, because Paul was feeling distraught about his life. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." And Paul thinks, "OK I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness so Christ's power will rest upon me. And in the next vs. it says ... I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Oh good now that I got that down I feel much better about things!