As I write this, I am in transition ‘in so many fronts’ that I cannot tell you for sure which one I am dealing with first. One thing I certainly can tell you is that somehow, God’s grace has kept us and somehow, I get through each day with hope still in my heart for the next.
Of all the stuff that we have had to deal with during this time, one constant is that God’s word has not failed us nor have we been strung for what we require for each step and each stage. I am completely in awe of the God who blesses beyond measure and has a timing for all things and if we stick with him will bring it all to pass.
Between paint colours, searching online for schools, booking travel dates, downloading resource materials online and preparing for a soon to be teenage daughter, God’s grace has been more than enough. Last night I woke up about 3.00 am and realised that I had over ten different things running around my head at the same time.
I decided to get out of bed and sit in my meeting place with my Father, and it hit me. A genius is not born; a genius becomes one when we align with God and collaborate with him to bring his will to pass. I immediately was taken back to a little over a decade ago when, if I woke up at 3.00 am it will be to cry at the lack of something to do with my life. I used to wonder if my hands will ever find something meaningful to do.
Today, I wake up at 3.00 am because my hands are too full, and I need grace to be able to work through it all without unravelling. That explains the season of my life right now, and what I realise I need to do is constantly go to the God of grace to fill me for each task and assignment.
Being a Homemaker like I always say is not a piece of cake whether your home consists of just you and your hubby or like mine, is a small village; in the end we all need to know what our season is about so we can ask for the right tools to walk and work them.
Although you are the boss at the home front, remember you have a Boss, who is God. Every time I make costly mistakes, I have found out it is usually because I do not do what I insist my troops do; I expect them to follow my instructions and then I refuse to follow my own Boss’s instructions.
For everyday, there is a word, for every task there is a grace, and all that is required is for us to ask for the right grace for the right time.
So as I box some things and listen for those that should not follow me into my new season, I realise that all that is required is for me to make sure I hear the instructions of my King; after all He did promise to whisper in my ears which way I should go. So I am learning to listen; not for the ‘chance’ word but the ‘Now’ word, because honestly, no one woman can do all these things that I do and make it out alive; but for grace.
It is my prayer that as a new year begins and the seasons of your life maybe change; you will hear the voice of your creator telling you which way to go and that your genius will truly be unleashed for the world to benefit in Jesus name.
God bless and keep your home.
—Bidemi
bidemi@effectualmag.com