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speaker-0: I would find myself just audibly groaning, like, ugh, I have to do this, you know, and then going to get her and just knowing it was gonna be gonna be tough.
speaker-1: That you talk about is this idea of a change of assignment instead of interruptions. Our day, I feel like my day from morning to night is nothing but a series of interruptions. One thing interrupts the next thing, interrupts the next thing. And and your change of perspective, just that simple little shift, is it's not an interruption. It's a change of assignment. Will you explain what you mean by that?
speaker-0: Yes. So this was something that really hit home for me for the first time when we had just two kids. So we had a two year old boy and then we had a baby girl who was quite colicky in these early months. And honestly, I look back and that was definitely the most challenging season of motherhood for me because their needs were just so different and always they just had so many needs at that point. But Our daughter Lainey, when she would cry out when I was in the middle of something, whether it was making dinner or spending time with my son or in the middle of the night, I would find myself just audibly groaning, I have to do this, you know, and then going to get her and just knowing it was gonna be gonna be tough. And the Lord really helped me shift my perspective in that season and see that these interruptions which really felt like interruptions to my better plans to care for my crying baby, weren't actually interruptions, but they were simply a change of assignment in that moment. And so tending to her needs was exactly what the Lord had for me that was going to grow and sanctify me as a woman. And it was exactly the ministry that he had in that moment. It wasn't an interruption from doing something better. And so When I would hear her crying out when I was stirring soup on the stove or even when I was just sleeping, I would audibly say, change of assignment, and then I would go to meet her needs. And it's incredible what that did in my heart. That it wasn't just, okay, now I'm gonna grip my teeth and I'm gonna do this. No, I saw that this was what my mission from the Lord was, and that it wasn't just an interruption. It was an invitation to to serve him by serving. My b my daughter. So I've used that a lot through the years in various situations, but just those three words are really, really powerful.
speaker-1: I love that. And it's not an interruption. It's an invitation, right? It's an invitation to also just show obedience to God. I can shift and pivot from this to that. And we always think that it's like a detour of our plan, right? But it's really not like a detour in our plan, that was always God's plan A in in the beginning, right? It always was his plan A. Absolutely.
speaker-0: Yes.
speaker-1: And what we're telling our kids when we say that is you're worth it. you're not an interruption. You're not a problem. This isn't just my life that you're woven into, right? You you are the plan. You are the assignment. And and everything we can do, then we can do it with joy. And that is so good. I'm I'm writing that one down. So it's not an interruption. It's an invitation. And just that simple shift, that change of assign assignment. I love it.
speaker-0: Yes, I think it's especially pertinent to homeschool moms, the change of assignment. Because we are we are often assigning our kids work. And yet I know for me with two littler ones that I'm really having to help and be very hands-on in our homeschool, I can feel like this ping pong ball between them and having to help for these various needs. And so I've used that for this season as well because I can get really flustered having to split my attention constantly. And I know we all feel that pressure as homeschool moms. But again, what is my assignment, Lord? Sometimes I have to pause and ask that in that moment. Right. help me prioritize in this moment. Show me my assignment.
speaker-1: That's so good. And what you've put in front of me right now, God, is the most important thing. Right? There that's what so if two in the morning, it's the feeding of the baby, that's what's the most important thing, not the sleep that I'm missing, right? Because exactly God knows our needs and He's gonna give us the ability to to do what He's called us to do. That is so good.
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