Homekeeper’s Journal With Linky Love ~ Struggling?

Its time for the Homekeeper’s Journal again! After a crazy week and a house full of sickies… we’re back to normal and have hit the ground running with school.

This week’s Journal is all about struggles and what we do when we find ourselves there.

The Homekeeper’s Journal is a way to keep track of your thoughts, in journal form, online. I have given you the prompts, written my own responses, and given you a Mclinky to use to leave the link to your own Journal entry. A link back here is nice but not required. Its also a great way to get traffic moving to your blog and share your thoughts with others.

I struggle in my kitchen with ….. keeping it clean enough to make me happy.  I don’t think its filthy, but its small and we’ve got a lot of people here who mess around in the kitchen, and its never quite right. I usually just forget about it and go on but now and then I struggle with the …. not mess…. disorganization of it. It falls into disorganization quickly each week because of all the people who use it I guess.

Struggles of any kind have a tendency to make me …… introspective. I don’t stress outwardly too much, but I’m always thinking. haha! Probably too much. So I fold up inside myself and think. And pray.

I struggle more when …….  the situation involves one of my children or my husband. More so than when it involves me.  I think most of us are like that. I struggle to turn it over to the Lord when it involves my family than when its just me. As if I could handle anything better than the Lord!  I constantly work at this.

When it comes to people, I struggle …..  to give understanding and be transparent when they are not. Its easier now than when I was younger. When I was younger I felt like I had to protect myself (my reputation, my feelings) and take up for myself. Now I see that the Lord will do that. But I still struggle with people who are confusing as all get out.

When it comes to struggles, I believe the Lord wants me to know …..  that He wants me to stop it! (Philippians 4:6-9), that He wants to carry my burdens for me (1 Peter 5:7), that some struggles are for my good (Romans 8:28-30) and that Jesus understands exactly what I am struggling against ( Hebrews 4:14-16).

Now its your turn!