Just Scootin' Along

I was looking through my facebook info the other day to make sure all of it was still current..I still love classic novels and I still can watch every episode of Criminal minds in a weekend (given the opportunity of course)
I got to the occupation section of the form and saw that I had put "Hat Wearer" as my occupation.
Before I became a wife and mother it was easy to define myself. I was what I did. I was a church planter catalyst. I was a youth pastor, I was a musician.
Now that I am a mother I feel like defining myself is an impossibility.
I remember why I put "hat wearer" in the first place because I could not condense my life into any single category.
The truth is I wear many different "hats"
I am one third of the way through a Masters of divinity degree only 60 credits to go baby!!!
I am Worship Director at The Pathway Church a position I love not for the huge 0$ pay check but for the connection we all feel as a family Sunday morning.
I am almost halfway in my battle to lose 80lbs by May 2011.
Most importantly I am a wife and mother. I try everyday to make the right decisions for my family. Sometimes as simple as "do the laundry or play Lego with Madi?"
The fact is I truly believe that everyday I do or say something that Madi will need therapy for later in life. I am her mother and I am sure I have messed her up already in some irreparable way. Luckily she has a wonderful Dad and I pray everyday that I wont mess her up more than he can fix her.
I can sometimes be weighed down by criticism. My feelings are not easily hurt and I don't often feel embarrassed. I enjoy a good joke at my expense. As a result people think they can say whatever they want to me, people say to me I did this or said this because I know you can take it, and I can. But sometimes I have bad days like everyone else and on those days I honestly feel as if I am trying to pull a double wide on a scooter.
We all need some encouragement sometimes. In the Bible God encourages us over and over again. "Be strong and courageous" "run the race so that you win the prize" "Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."
The truth is we all have those days. God speaks to us through the scriptures and encourages us to "have hope"