Messes

So, I've been looking back at recent posts, and I can't help but notice that several of them include messes. Gloop, finger paint and cookies all made messes at my house recently. We have lots of messes at my house. The fun kind - that I can post cute pictures with, and the yucky diaper kind, and the Ava put peanut butter in her hair kind. Kids make messes. Add to that a new baby and two moves in six months, and you won't be surprised when I say that my life is one big mess. I was never a super organized person, even before I had kids. But things have never been this bad before. We are routinely going to the clothes dryer for clean clothes & the dish washer for clean dishes. I can not keep up. The garage is filled with unpacked boxes, and the house is overrun with stuff that doesn't have a home yet. My back is starting to hurt as I write all this! And it is all pulling me down. But... As I have had time to think about all this, I've realized that God has been in the housekeeping business for a very long time. He has been cleaning up messes since Adam & Eve moved into the Garden of Eden. Not only is He cleaning up my messes, He is allowing me to be the kind of mother that allows her children to make messes. And that's the kind of mother that my children need. And it is even more comforting to know that the spiritual mess that we are all in - "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23 - God handled that mess before any of us knew that it was a mess.