Guidance

I asked for clear guidance for our career and financial path, and for this week especially. I had anticipated that to mean for my husband’s career path only. However, God has made it abundantly clear on how I need to pursue properly my own path.

I let my aunt know tonight that tomorrow is my last day helping to care for my grandmother. I still will be sure to see her and will be sure she gets to see my daughter, of course. But I will not be working to help care for her anymore. I love her, and I need to be responsible for my actual job, which is being a mother, a homemaker, and a wife. My husband and I chose this career together for me to do, and everything within me felt right in choosing so. That I did this extra work to help us out financially did make sense for a short while. But that short while has ended, and God made it clear the past few days especially that it is time to return fully to my “real job”, as it were.

And I have a whole load of stuff that has gotten pushed aside these past few weeks I’ve helped care for my grandmother. So, it won’t be a cakewalk to dive back into it all full-time. But, after I’ve recovered the bit more that I need after tomorrow, I’m actually quite looking forward to all that I will be getting to do each day. I’m excited about the satisfaction that will come with the hard work’s completion, as well as the relief and joy of having a home we enjoy being inside, of having a home that functions and is beautiful. It will take a while for that all to land in place, but I’m excited to get started on it all again. And, I’m excited to start building a routine and an educational adventure of a schedule with my daughter. I will be able to turn my focus to her for more than just a bit more often than the times she cries – such a beautiful change from the present situation, which has left us both crying far too often.

Thank you for my husband. Thank you for our home. Thank you for our new family (aka our daughter). And thank you for this clear guidance. Please, continue to give it. Please, keep us safe, make us well and whole, and keep us together and in your hands. In your name, Lord Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2025