my sunday :)

I laid in bed this morning struggling to get out of it. I wanted so bad to just lay there for the rest of the day. But then I thought to myself, Samantha today is the day the Lord has made. Today is a holy day. Today is the day you get the opportunity to worship the Lord in his house. I am always striving to do what God wants me to do....so I roll out of bed (literally) and begin to get everyone fed and ready for church. As I was getting ready, I realized that I had two girls that needed their hair fixed. I rushed them in the bathroom starting fixing their hair and my two year old son decides to get into everything on the bathroom counter. My 9 year old decides to try to be helpful and starts taking everything away from him. Whoa!!! You would have thought someone was pulling the teeth out of his head! He was just screaming so obnoxiously. After a few minutes of all the screaming I start to get major stressed. I have approximately 30 minutes to finish getting myself ready, get the girls ready, get caleb ready, get his bag ready, and get everyone loaded up in the car. Sunday mornings are so stressful! Why are Sunday mornings so much more stressful than any other morning? My theory: The devil. He will try every thing to get us to just give up and stay away from the Lord. So through the temper tamtrums and all the dressing up in a hurry I just slapped that devil in the face and put a smile on my face as I rolled into the parking lot of church..On Time!!!!! No hes not gonna win in this house! God must have smiled  down on us today and rewarded us with a wonderful sermon. After a refreshing morning in church, I spent the afternoon with my mother. I love sunday afternoons spent at her house. Kids enjoy it as well. We ate lunch, played outside, cut calebs hair, cut kaylas hair, and the dogs hair! As five o clock was approaching, that exact same stress came tumblind down on me. We had around 30 minutes to get cleaned up and out the door on the way for afternoon service. Caleb decided that he would much rather stay and play...so that was a fight. Kayla didnt want her visitation with her daddy to end. She was upset. Bless her heart. Then she didnt have flip flops like hailie was wearing because all she had was her high heels she wore to church earlier. That upset her just a little. Hailie was on top of her game so that was helpful.. 10 minutes until church time and were finally making it out the door. All the time caleb screaming for his dinosaur he left in the house. I couldnt give in. I had to just get in that car and go! It would have been so easy just to stay and relax the rest of the afternoon. But again God rewarded us with another great sermon! He is such a rewarding God. You reap what you sow.

So if your mornings are like mine...put a smile on that face, push that devil to the side, and enjoy what God has given you.

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.