circaeducation As a stay-at-home mom turned homeschool mom, your lifeAs a stay-at-home mom turned homeschool mom, your life may seem ordinary and unremarkable. You are largely unnoticed by others who may not understand or appreciate what you do. You perform the same tasks every day with the same little people. Yes, I’m right there with you, and I understand if you feel like you live a painfully ordinary life.
But we don’t have to believe the lie that our lives lack deep meaning. Because when we view our lives as just “ordinary,” we miss out on so much. No one’s life is ordinary, and no one person is ordinary – we are all unique with unique gifts and callings, and we were placed on this earth in this season, in this century, for a purpose.
The Christ-life is upside down, my friends. The world tells us to continuously strive for more, more, more! Don’t settle for the “ordinary”! No, you need a bigger house, a new kitchen, a better wardrobe, a better job, more money, more success, more exposure…
But Jesus says, be glad, no – rejoice always. And always means right where you are.
Because when we long for something else, we miss what is right here. I know many successful people who are missing the right here. They miss their kids, their husbands, their families, their friends, everything that really matters – they’re missing it all. And if we’re missing it, we’re ruining it, and we never get a second chance at this very moment.
When we long for something else, we despise what we have.
Isn’t that like saying we deserve more? Different? Better? Aren’t we saying to God, “Hey, You ripped me off!”
It doesn’t mean we can’t dream – of course we can. But it means the dreaming for the future should never cause us to despise the present. Whether you’re a homeschool mom who longs to succeed in business or ministry or other areas of life or you’re a single professional who longs to be a homeschool mom – rejoice. Right where you are.
What one person views as “ordinary,” another thinks is whimsical. The grass is always greener, isn’t it? What Christ says is this: be content right where you are. Until we can grow in maturity to fully embrace where God has placed us, He can never take us further. We can never fully, completely enter into this season and know that nothing surrounding us is meaningless.
Everything is beautiful and crazy and wildly spiritual. Don’t believe for one moment that your days are just blips – ordinary nothings. Reject the lies and embrace the truth. Your life is sacred, your minutes are blessed, and your weeks are spattered with grace. True, deep-down joy finds us when we see the “everyday ordinary” as profoundly purposeful.
Let’s stop striving for the next season. It may never come – nothing is guaranteed. We can’t throw away today for an unknown tomorrow. Look around you this moment and embrace where you are right now…