Tuesday Recap – Thursday Reality

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Hey folks

Listen. Living with little humans is tough. Life with six teens and five little kids is CRAZY.

Truth be told, Tuesday Recap is purely metaphorical. If I didn’t say a day in the title, I’d never be like, “crap, it’s Tuesday and I didn’t write my recap.” Then furiously write, or just give up and hope and try to do better next week. Tuesday is more of a bullseye.

Speaking of Bullseye, did the local Target shake down your life savings over the Easter weekend?

I love Target. It is my happy place, really.

Here is the thing. I had passed the big gaudy baskets that lined the entrance of the local grocery store. I couldn’t believe how much they were asking for a basketball and a hand full of candy.

In my total ignorance and pride I formulated my own theme for Easter treats for the kids. I was gonna create a beautiful lesson and save me some money.

The day before Easter, motivated by bad news, and general grief, I got all hopped up on Cascara Coffee and grabbed a cart at the local Target. Our girls are interested in Face Masks and all things drippy and gooey in the beauty isle. There were a few items in my last couple of FabFitFun boxes that they got to try and now they are self proclaimed beauty gurus, sans YouTube channel. We have had a couple of girl nights and I hoped to inspire a few more with hair and face masks. We love the Burt’s Bees line of face care products, so I added a spot treatment, cleanser and some of the face cleansing wipes that I like to use.

They boys needed socks and manly things. (they always need socks, there are 1,000 socks, lurking somewhere in our home plotting a rebellion) I have teens and wrestlers so we are on the lookout for face cleansers that are easy to use and not full of terrible chemicals, so again we picked up a clarifying mask, spot healing roller and quick, no rinse face wipes.

Life has been a little out of whack. Normally, we celebrate The Ides of March (3-15) with fresh socks and new clean underwear, you know, in case of an accident, the fall of society or your untimely murder by the senate. But paychecks and food costs led us to postpone replacing everyone’s ventilated socks. Easter seemed like a good time to cover these needs and just add candy.

The trouble was my nagging grief, combined with the rush to get out of town on four hours to see Doug’s fathers whos health was failing. Top that with the guilt of not waking up Easter morning with my little ones. All of this combined to cause a wee problem with my cart. (being it go full) Holiday shopping, even for little treats, for 13 people takes more than small change, but in the end, let’s just say that I should have just bought those big gaudy baskets at the grocery store.

All Was Not Lost; There is a Message in This

Though I might have succumbed to a little retail therapy; but I did have a theme for Easter. Socks, snacks, cleansers, facial masks and Band-Aids, all are for tending the outside.

We focus on the outward man, it is God who cares about the heart.

Just as we care for our outer man, I want to encourage all of my family to turn their hearts to our soul. This is why we celebrate Easter. Jesus paid the price, he made a way for us to approach God. A God who loves us and is the only one who can meet our soul’s deepest needs.

It is not how we look.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD will be praised. Prov. 31:30

This face isnt going to last forever. We all become etched with our years. If this is where your value lies, you will find your self looking into the mirror for affirmation, and one day it won’t be there.

It is not our great stuff.

And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Matt. 6:28-30

Stuff, it chokes our world, our mail boxes, our news feed. The world shouts out what we need, what we are missing, the shoulds and must have. They change the rules and products every season. There is a great healing power in the word ENOUGH. I have enough. I am enough. This is enough. God is enough.

Being Enough — It is good to be reminded that you are enought. God is Enough. You can say enough! You can ask for help if you have had enough.

It is the person we are deep inside.

…God seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord beholdeth the heart. Samuel 16:7b

There is so much we only see on the outside. We try so hard to keep up appearances, put on a face, play the part, but God cares for none of this. He gives us opportunities to rip off the mask and be seen. He gives us the confidence to stand up in peril, trial, and even in anguish and say, “This is me, the soul God loves.”