You know what I am talking about.
It’s the if we just statements.
If we just did this, we tell ourselves.
If we just lost this.
If we just got up earlier.
If we just cleaned more.
If we just spent less money.
If we just couponed more.
If we just didn’t complain.
If we just worked harder.
If we just homeschooled.
If we just sent our kids to school.
If we just had a better schedule.
If we just volunteered more.
If we just read that book.
If we just did stuff like her.
If we just, if we just, if we just…
What are we doing?
Seriously, friends, my sisters, what are we doing?
There is no ladder of motherhood success. There is no ultimate homemaker. No winner of the blogging world. No amazing wife of the year. And yet, we hold this if we just bar up high for ourselves and often cut ourselves short in what we did do.
What if we just learned to love ourselves the way the Lord sees us? Seriously. What if we worked, and we did our best, our very best, and went to bed at night feeling good about us? About our day? About our family? About what we did do?
What if we stopped asking ourselves if we just and instead defined our worth through the Lord?
We could spin and spin and spin telling ourselves if we just statements throughout our lives. We lose the real, the present, when we allow ourselves to sit in the if we just times of life. Instead of staying there — Do — Define priorities. More often then not you will discover that many of those if we just statements pull us from those that matter most. Our family. Our spouses. Our friends. We run ourselves ragged trying to keep every duck in a row, trying to keep the if we just statements at bay, and we go to bed exhausted thinking we’ll never measure up.
If we just…
Life is not meant to be lived with if we just statements defining us.
Figure out what matters most to you. Do your very best.
Sisters, again, do your very best. Wake up in the morning, dedicate your day to the Lord, move through your day, doing your best.
And do not not let if you just define you – prune that this spring.
Instead, let the Lord define you.
And that? That is beautiful.