Spread too thin?

Do you ever feel like the list of things that must be done on any given day simply out weighs the time and or energy to accomplish it all? When I add up the daily demands of cleaning, and cooking, shopping and paying bills, home schooling a kindergartener and a preschooler at the same time as caring for a 17 month old sometimes my head just begins to spin! I start to feel overwhelmed and tired the night before just thinking of the alarm going off the next morning. The funny thing? The earlier I get up the less tired I actually feel during the day! And no, this has nothing to do with me being a morning person because well, I’m not. If I had my way I’d go to bed at 9 and not get up till noon the next day! (Before I had kids to crawl all over me at the crack of dawn every day I thought that anything short of a ten hour nights sleep just might kill me.) As simple as the truth is it’s also somehow incredibly easy to loose sight of: Start your day with the Lord. Place your heart and your needs at His feet as your first act of living each morning. Praise Him for His grace, His faithfulness and the chance to serve Him yet another day. Time and time again, I have lived through the black and white that exists between setting out on my own and letting His grace meet my needs. My “New Years resolution”? To never let how tired I am or how late I got to bed or how long I know my day will inevitably be, keep me from falling on my face before the throne of the Almighty God; in praise of who He is; in need of all His grace, comfort, leading and love.