When I started out as a Homemaker it was all I did for one decade. I had so many hours in my day that it seemed like God apportioned more than 24 hours to me to test my patience and punish me. I had what could be called a lot of idle hours that I loathed yet I found a way to put to good use. Nothing Mark my husband told me about the fact that I would have days in the future so busy that I would need help made sense to me. All I could see where I was at was how untapped my potential was and how under-utilized I was. Today, I crave just one day when I will be under-utilized!
My phone is ringing on one hand, the laptop is flashing on the other, someone just asked a question on the video I put out and I need to respond to her, then I see a whatsapp message from Bukola, Effectual needs attention, all the articles are in and only mine is missing. Then I remember how I have neither blogged nor podcasted in an entire year. Oh, I need to prepare for both Discipleship Classes and shoot, it is the 28th of the month, I need to get myself ready for the 7 Day prayers on Facebook.
Hmmmm, just as it seems like I am going to faint, Mark has just responded that he wants something not out of the freezer for dinner, I mean it is his only meal from home of the day, shouldn’t I indulge him? To be truthful, is that even an indulgence? Oh boy! I am becoming a really bad wife! Then I remember, KK and Dukia leave in a few days, are their jackets packed? Which one of them asked for yam flour? Hmmm, they don’t even eat yam flour at home! Anyway, I have to add that to the list. Oh, the office just called, the electricity bill is due and the internet subscription is about to run out, don’t forget to add the requisition for diesel and petrol for the generators… I am sure you know that at this point I am flat on my face.
Even that fall on my face doesn’t last, they fall with me and continue to remind me that my brother has been trying to speak with me for days, and my mother had a cold the last time I spoke to her and when was that again? Was it this week or last month? Oh boy! Yet there was a day when all I had to do was get the children ready for school, drop them off, clean the house and wait to go and get them from school… I crave that day but I know I may never get them back. So how did I fill those empty days? I now ask myself. Well, I used to read… and what I now realise is that those days when nothing was tugging at me and I had all the time in the world to read and read was when God prepared me for this frenzy that my life has become.
Today, your life may seem so empty and your lifestyle non-existent. I will encourage to prepare for the day when your song will begin to resound, others are definitely going to hear what only you can hear right now, a day is going to come when the switch will be flipped on you and God forbid that you will not be ready. By all means read up everything you can find on your heartsong, study the lives of those who are living your life ahead of you. Learn what you need to learn and definitely spend time with your family and love on them as best as you can, because when your seasons change, when the drum that beats to the song of your heart becomes louder and others come to dance to your melody and harmony, you may not have enough time to spend with them anymore. While you are at it, remember that you will need others when that day comes. So be there for others today, sow seeds of goodness in your future, they usually yield a harvest in the future.
Finally, breathe, don’t pass out, because even this season is not going to be forever, things will slow down again, not because you will lose relevance but because your strength will diminish, before that happens, today is the day you must prepare for that day, don’t get too carried with the frenzy that you don’t stop long enough to show a less experienced person the way… because when your strength begins to diminish and you can’t go as fast as you used to they will be your hands and feet.
In conclusion, this is life, whether you knew it would come or not, this is life. Regardless of where you are at today, enjoy it more than anything. Make the kind of memories that appeal to you. Because when it is done, when all the seasons are done changing, the only thing you will have are the memories you have made. Trust me I know…
Now that I have this done, where is my phone? I have not spoken to Joshua in almost a month, I need to call him.
This is the life… seasons come and seasons go.
Adjust your lifestyle.