How often have we ignored our intuition? The voice in our head is drowned out by the sounds of your kids complaints that they need something from you. What do you do? Do you get to it later or do you move on and forget the voice you heard this morning…last night…last week?

Sometimes I feel completely overwelmed by my day. Scared…a feeling now that I’m a mom, I feel way too often. The only thing that helps me get through today and look freshly at tomorrow is prayer. It’s so simple.

Two years ago, I remember asking friends how they pray. Most looked absolutely purplexed by the question. I’ve heard some home-run prayers in my day, but the only thing that works for me is to give thanks. I find myself praying in the car, in bed at night, making dinner.

The truth is, I don’t believe we become the people we are meant to be unless we check in with the Almighty. Today is not tomorrow. We only need concern ourselves with being the women and men in Christ we are meant to be today. 

Do you fall into the trap that I do? Planning and trying to control everything? I know it’s wrong, but I try to control things that are far from my control. It’s crazy.

A beautiful Christian woman I know lost her husband this week to cancer. He was diagnosed 3 weeks ago. He had been sick most of this year and had been in and out of hospitals. How do we make sense of a 38 year old man leaving three young children behind? We can’t. We have to trust that this is the Lord’s plan…not for us to understand.

This tragic death was my wake up call. It rocked me. The only thing we have in our control is our actions. Tonight I pray that the Lord will help me become the woman he wants me to be, the mom he wants me to be and the wife he wants me to be. Afterall, I can control what I pray for!