You Matter

I am a daughter of God.

I am a wife.

I am mother.

I homeschool my 3 kids.

I do dishes, laundry and sweep the never ending dust from my floors.

I wipe away tears, kiss boo-boos, and break up arguments over legos.

I tickle, I make jokes, and can act quite goofy.

And until very recently, I was starting to believe the LIE that what I do doesn't really matter.

I was starting to believe that my life wasn't really "important".  I'm not a traveling evangelist bringing the Word of God to people. I'm not a missionary working in an orphanage in Africa. I'm not doing any sort of work in ministry at the moment. Not even a volunteer (we recently started at a new church) I really felt like I was not making a difference at all.

But I was. I was being snippy with my kids and my husband. I was spending less and less time in my Bible. My prayer time was diminishing. I was feeling discouraged which I know shines through no matter how much I try to hide it.

I started questioning why I homeschool my kids. Home educating my kids is my PASSION! I really believe in my heart that is what God wants me to do in this season on life. So why start to question it all?

I am learning something in all this.

I matter.

My ministry is right in front of me. It's not glamorous, and I made the mistake of comparing my life with others, and you really can't do that. God has a plan and purpose for my life which will not look the same as anyone else. So why compare?

My ministry is the people around me. The people God places before me. The relationships that I am in now. And the relationships that are to be formed. Ministry is about people. Helping people. Sharing the love of God to people. Living your life as a "shining star" that points to Jesus. That's what I teach my kids...maybe I should start to practice what I preach.

So today if you are thinking the way I was...that what you do is not important...it is! If you are a stay at home mom, a working mom, a ministry mom, or not even a mom at all what you do in the every day is important! And it's your ministry. The people in your world are your ministry field. It's your family, it's your friendships, it's your neighbors, it's the people in your Bible study, it's the congregation of your church. The list goes on and on.

You matter. What you do in the every day matters. Don't ever forget that.