Have you ever had a week where you were just completely overwhelmed? I’ve had one of those this week. Some of it is my own fault. I like to take on the world. I see projects that need done, or ways I can help and I dive in before I stop to consider just how much time and energy what I am committing to may take. Everything I am wanting to do is good. And my intentions in wanting to do it are good as well. But when it all comes together and it is time to execute everything, I realize I may have bitten off a bit more than I can chew.

So then what is the answer? I don’t want to let anyone down. My family needs me. I have committed to these things, so I have to do them right? What about my friends? They usually suffer, it seems. And that isn’t fair or right. Time with God? That should be first. And it often falls away because I am tired and feel I have to fulfill all of my other responsibilities first.

Priorities really are something that I find myself needing to evaluate on a regular basis. All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.

1 Corinthians 10:23

Everything I do may be good, but it may not be at the right time. If I am lacking the time I need to spend time with God, then something has to go. If I am neglecting my marriage, or my kids, then I have to reevaluate. If my important friendships are suffering, then I need to seriously consider what my priorities are.

I feel often we want to be Superwoman, juggling everything there is to juggle and doing it all perfectly, never missing a beat.

I’m not Superwoman though. I’m a fallible woman who needs rest and must take time to evaluate what is most important. I posted earlier this week about control and how often we feel like if we can just keep all of the plates spinning we will be ok. This ties in. We are not able to keep those plates spinning. Eventually one teeters and they all fall into thousands of pieces on the floor.

The best way to keep that from happening is to stop and take inventory of all we are doing. What is top priority. First needs to be God, then our families, then go from there. We may need to let some things go.

I often feel like if I don’t do it then no one will. But that is prideful. God is bigger than that. He has people in place to take care of the things He needs taken care of. I do not have to hold the world together. I don’t have to solve everyone’s problems. I like to fix things. I like to make problems go away and people feel better. But God is so much better at that than I am.

He often reminds me when I fail at keeping my plates all neatly stacked together, as they lay in pieces on the floor, and I have failed to keep all of my commitments once again, that He makes beautiful things out of broken pieces. Mosaics are made out of a lot of broken pieces of plates or pottery all pieced together to make one beautiful new piece. That is what God does.

Let’s give Him the pieces. Let’s tell Him we can’t do it all. Let’s reevaluate what is important and right. Let’s declutter our lives. Let’s make our priorities clear, God, marriage, children, then everything else. We will be blessed for it.

It is amazing that when we prioritize the right things, our time appears to multiply. It is because God has promised that if He calls is to something He will enable us to complete that calling. Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

Philippians 1:6

Trust Him. Do it right and see the results. You won’t regret it.