I thought I had my life altogether: our marriage, our family, our extended family, our business, our friends, etc. After all, these were clearly a direct result of us working hard. Except that they weren’t. I didn’t see it then. I chose not to see it. I chose to live in sin. I chose daily to uplift my pedestal so I couldn’t even see God in my life.
Children, they are a blessing indeed! Solomon’s Psalm seems so well forgotten in this day and age where technology, media, and people constantly guilt us with messages that “YOU time” is most important, what matters to YOU is what should hold ultimate value in your life, YOUR feelings rule above morality and truth. While some of those, within reason, are not in and of themselves bad (boundaries, knowing who we are and whose we are, etc.), we need to keep in mind that our standard isn’t ourselves.