Morning Graces

I am soooooo not a morning person and my oldest son is. I have such a hard time with the constant energetic chatter when I first wake up and the "Mommy come here! Mommy look at this! Mommy [fill in the blank with a deep question about the universe]." And then imagine someone playing a broken record that is just full of random audio sounds... "Lalala, beep beep ,honk, ding dong, boing boing boing, aooga, deedle, doop doop,ding-a-ling, hummmmmm, chink, chong, aaaaaah, bubbu bubba, brrrrrrm, honk, toot toot, badonka, woosh, buzzzzzzz"... And as if that's not enough, a sprawl with the sibling often inevitably ensues....*sigh

Lord, I NEED your grace in those moments... When I want to just curl up and go back to sleep... Let my heart instead be filled with love and compassion and joy knowing that my children are only little once and they have such a great desire to be with me and to share their excitement with me.

I asked my oldest son one time why he was constantly in my face every two seconds first thing in the morning and his reply was "because I love you and just want to be with you mom!"

What a humbling reminder to me of these precious moments.

Next time any of you other mamas feel this way, just pray for God's grace and remind yourselves of these truths.

"Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah" Psalms 68:19