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Keep a Quiet Heart
I think I find most help in trying to look on all the interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one's work. Then one can feel that perhaps one's true work--one's work for God--consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one's day. It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day--the part one can best offer to God. After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it.
Annie Keary, 1825-1879
2 comments:
Hi Jean, This is so appropriate for me this week as I am feeling like such a failure at homeschooling my son with cerebral palsy. Today we started out so well, but things quickly went downhill. The interuptions that are frequent with a handicapped child are about to get me down and I have been on the verge of tears all day. This reminder to "keep a quiet heart" is just what I need to remember just exactly what my 'real' work is.
Blessings on you for doing a hard task! Teaching our children, whatever their talents/handicaps, is a challenge to each of us. You are no doubt climbing Mt. Everest each day--and are unaware at how skilled and practiced you are! Keeping a quiet heart is frequently the key to many struggles for me. God bless, Jean
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