These past few years have been really busy for me with three little ones. I’m not sure if you are able to access my profile on my blog or not. Just for clarification, my children are fifteen, thirteen and a half, five, two and a half, and six months old. In these last three or so years I have been in a pregnancy/baby fog. My pregnancies are fraught with fatigue and depression (I’ll save the depression issues for another post).
It has become more apparent to me that things just aren’t running smoothly around these parts. At the end of the day I’m not sure what actually has been accomplished and what has been left undone. Due to my prior experience as a wife and mother I realize that some days are just like that. This is something more. I am in desperate need of a plan. I have decided that I need to take another look at my priorities.
My list of priorities are as follows:
1. My God
2. My Husband
3. My Children
4. My Home
First and foremost is my relationship with my Heavenly Father. In Him is where my first priority should always be. He truly is my strength and comforter.
In everything you do, put God first, and he will direct you and crown your efforts with success. ~ Proverbs 3:6
Without my God everything I do is in vain. I need him to direct me each and every day.
Second is my husband. After my God, he is my support. He is the man my God chose for me to look to for guidance and love.
For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Ephesians 5:23
I want nothing more than to be a pleasing wife to my husband and make sure that he knows how very important he is to me.
Thirdly come my children. My children are the fruit of the love in my marriage. They are our gifts of joy from our God.
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Psalm 127: 3
As a parent of five covenant children, I have a huge responsibility to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Lastly is the care and keeping of my home. Our home is where we spend most of our time. I am determined to make it the place where we would rather be. A place where our friends and family are always welcomed and made to feel comfortable.
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Proverbs 31:27
These priorities need to be my daily goal. The ways in which I meet these priorities each day may be different but I seek to honor the Lord in each of them.
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
Proverbs 31:25
