… they’ll be days like this.

On Friday, a friend said, “I have no idea how you keep it all together.”

At first I was flattered, then I realized, that this person felt alone and overwhelmed.

If I’ve ever given any person the indication that I have it all together, then I have done a great disfavor.

So, if you feel like you are the only one who is coming apart at the seams, here you go…

This was a glimpse at last week:

On Tuesday, at a work dinner, Mr. B texted me to see if I’d be joining them at Nate the Great’s science fair. = mom fail

On Wednesday, I completely forgot about a lunch date with a new friend. = friend fail

On Thursday, after work, I cut roses from the bushes with Sweet Baby J. She was been so excited about watching our roses bloom in the garden and bringing them inside for the first time. I found them this morning on our table outside. Cut and Dead. = mom fail #2

On Saturday, I fell asleep on the couch and missed cooking cake pops with Sweet Baby J. = mom fail #3

Mr. B. took me for an amazing dinner Saturday night and insisted that I unwind. We belted Adele, Owl City and Midlake all the way there. When we arrived I promptly (dad, are you sitting down?),  scratched Brian’s new truck on a pole. Yup, 1 inch scratch. Total meltdown. = wife fail (yes, the truck is fine and i can buff it out, i just felt HORRIBLE).

I can’t even count the other things I messed up or forgot to do this week.

But you know what?

This all melts away. God’s grace takes over and retells me that I am His. I am His child whether I am sitting in the front row, on time, pressed and pleated or if I am the child with the unkempt hair and filthy fingernails. 

Humbling.

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Sometimes, I feel like God is speaking to me when I turn on the radio.

Three separate times, Where I belong by Building 429, has been on. It speaks to me.

I LOVE that my God knows that I am not the greatest listener.

I get in my own way so many times ~ but when He brings His word to me in music… it gets woven into my soul and changes me into a new creation.

I hope you have an awesome week. YOU are NOT a failure. {I needed to say that for me, too}

Philippians 3:13-14 :  Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.