All about Psalm 90

The guest speaker stood at the podium today beginning with her explanation of her struggle in trying to figure out what she should talk to a group of moms about. Prayer she said brought her to Psalm 90.

Psalm 90: 13-17

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness,
That we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen evil.
Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
And confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

Listening to her speak was like the Lord was standing right smack in front of me... saying hellooo wake up Brooke. I am talking to you. All the struggles over the past couple of days are beginning to bundle up and expload inside of me. Future decisions that I like to take into my own hands that make me a lil OCD at times. Like how many kids should we have, am a choosing the right schools for my kids, is this where we should live forever; the list goes on and I sat yesterday in the silence at nap time thinking that it would be good to pull out my bible but so boring. So many times of previous attempts to get in the word and my mind starts to wander in different directions over things that are "more important."
Wake up! The speaker clearly tells the moms, the Word, IS what is most important. This is your foundation for everything else that goes on your life. If you get in the Word, learn your wisdom from the Word; everything then will be takin care of. You will then know how to respond to your child who is out of control and screaming bloody murder over her "hurt knee" that her brother accidently bumped getting into the car; you will have peace over the stage of life that you are in and where you live and the choices that you are making.

Satisfy us in the morning O Lord with your lovingkindness ( His compassion),
that we may sing for Joy and be glad all our days.

When you start your day with the Lord ( whenever that time of the day is)- in return you have JOY and GLADNESS. What mom wouldn't ask for this everyday. Givin that some days are yes, going to be difficult, the way you react is going to be mirror what is going on your heart.

Yesterday I completely lost it with my daughter over something that she was clearly being disobedient about. I told her to stay in a certain spot outside so that I could get her brother's pictures done. She of course didn't listen so I yelled at her. How would I have reacted if I would have spent time with God yesterday? I truly believe that the Lord would prob have told me, this isn't the time to take the pictures, wait. Right now, be with your children and enjoy each other.

I truly believe that my dission making is going to be ratically changed now that I am commiting myself to read scripture EVERY day. Not only am I going to read it, I am going to blog it! I figure that I can't be the only mom out there who is stuggling to spend time with the Lord during our busy life's of raising children. And I figure maybe through my writting, I can help moms who aren't sure what to read when they sit and open the bible. It is a huge and sometimes over whelming book. And I am by no means a pro at this, so we can do it together.
I should be pro by now. Maybe many of you think the same thing and are a bit embarassed about it because we put on the happy face at church, hear the preacher speak of the importance of a quiet time, yet we sit there and smile, ashammed at heart knowing that we should be doing more. Well, here we go, let's do this.

Each day I will write a passage of scripture. ( Sometimes all we have in a moment of down time is our phones; which thanks to technology gives us the internet at our fingertips) Then I will blog what I have gotten out of it and probally a lil bit of me putting my struggles into words. My prayer is that we would be Refreshed each day with the Word. This then will help us be the better mom that we all long to be.