One Word Prompt ~ Five Minutes of Writing ~ No Editing
Today's Prompt: TRUE
Go!
True: Consistent with fact or reality; not false
or erroneous.
Being a mom I get caught up in daily tasks such as cooking,
cleaning, wiping bottoms, and basically holding down the fort while hubby works
hard for us. While doing these tasks I often lose sight of what is true. Or
even what is true about me and who I am.
I start to believe lies over what is true. I become inconsistent
and restless. This usually happens after a week that was difficult. Then I
start to think I cannot do this. I battle myself and wonder what happened and
then God sits me down and I stop and realized I have lost sight of what is
true.
Quick story, just the other day I was having a busy rush around
day where I had put what is true aside and concentrated on tasks. Nothing else
mattered but completing these tasks, I was in the car with the boys running errands
when a radio program mentioned this wife who was trying to get her husband out
of jail in Iran. She went on to tell how her husband was a Christian and was trying to
start an orphanage and then was thrown in jail and it has now been a year. I
was heartbroken and began praying and made a mental note to look up this man
Saeed Abedini.
I got out of the car and my 4 yr. old asked me what I was
thinking at first I was like hurry up we need to get you new shoes and then I stopped
and realized how will he know what is true if I never tell him so I told him
about a daddy being in prison and how I was praying for him. My son then said
oh I will pray now for him. Right then I felt like God was saying this is what
is true. This moment when you teach my child to pray for those suffering that
is what is true. New shoes are not a life skill but knowing to pray for was is
true and having empathy towards others is.
When I listen to what is true, what is good I can be everything
God intended me to be, I am consistent, content, and at ease with where I am in
life. When I listen to what is true I am surprised that I ever fell for the
lies. The only way to be happy is to be true to who you are. Who has God called
you to be? For me it is being a teacher of what is true.
Stop!
I would rather know the
truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can't have both truth and happiness,
give me truth. I can be happy in heaven.
~ A. W. Tozer