I have this grand idea that if I try really hard I can control everything around me. Isn’t that a wonderful illusion? What is reality? Control slips through our fingers like grains of sand at the seashore being pulled back out to sea. We can’t keep all of those grains together in our hands no matter how hard we try!

Is it possible to ever keep control of anything? Our lives are so busy. We have husbands with jobs, kids at school, mothers with jobs plus homes to care for along with the children, laundry, meals, the list is endless. How do we maintain the things we want to maintain like friendships, church activities, extracurricular activities for our kids, while still spinning all the plates and maintaining everything at home? How do we keep the fires burning in our marriage? How do we spend one on one time with our kids? How do we make alone time with our Creator that is so precious and important?

Do we just let the plates crash and give up? Yes. That isn’t the politically correct answer. The answer is that if you are good at being a wife and mom you have it all together all the time, but friend, you can’t. None of us can. We are human, fallible, may I even say tired? You can’t do it all. Not by yourself.

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Matthew 11:28,30

Jesus knew we couldn’t do all these things on our own. He already had a command for us. Wait, stop, it wasn’t a request. It is literally written as a command. Come unto me. Not will you, or think about it, just come. If you have plates spinning in every direction today, you are trying so hard to maintain control, I see you. I know you are trying. So does Jesus. He knows more than I ever can because He made you. Friend, take your burdens to the One Who made you, Who sees every thought, every anxiety, every feeling of failure that you have. He sees every tear at night when you think through your day and list the things you have failed to do. He sees that longing your heart feels when you reach over to your sleeping husband and think about how long it has been since you have truly connected with him.

You are not alone. You are not meant to carry each burden alone. Mothers today carry so many plates, they wear so many hats, but you don’t ever have to do any of that completely alone. Remember Who allowed your to have those roles in the first place. He won’t fail you now. Give Him each role and the burden that comes with each one. Let Him help you sort them out. He will. Trust Him with them. When we give up control is when we see things fall into place. That is hard. We feel like giving up control means our plates will crash into five million pieces. Not on Jesus’ watch my friends. He can keep them spinning with a word. Please let Him.