Christian, or so I say!

[Quackmonster]

Hi, I try every day to be good, but usually fail brilliantly, I spend most of morning screaming at my kids trying to get them to school on time, spend the rest of the day feeling crap because I spent morning screaming at them, spend most of late morning wanting youngest to GO TO SLEEP, spend time she's asleep running up & down stairs making sure she's breathing, spend afternoon waiting for kids to come in to play with youngest, spend tea time wishing it was bedtime & sampling local offer on white wine, worry if they go to bed too easily cos got to be something wrong, in meantime have yelled at telly , told endless coldcallers not interested, told phone surveys to GO Away, sort off, have I missed something!
Think Christian ethos has passed me by!

you sound quite normal to me, believing in God doesn't mean you have to take bullshit from everyone and smile all the time.

Oh you have just made me laugh.
I could have written that nearly word for word.
I find also that if I pray about being a better christian that day I am even worse.
Thanks for letting me know Im not alone and thank goodness we are not expected to be perfect.
Heres to tommoro have a good day.

I have to admit, I feel I'd be a much better Christian if I didn't have kids! :o

I have learned to say sorry to my two (3 if you count DH) when I've flown off the handle at them, and we hug and kiss and make up... until the next time...

which reminds me of the reading we had at church this week (it's the lectioanry reading, so you might have had it too)

"if the shepherd has 100 sheep and he loses one, doesn't he leave his 99 sheep on their own adn go looking for the 1 that he lost? and then doesn't he go to all his friends 'look, i've foind my lost sheep, let's celebrate'?. I tell you, there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 men who have no need to repent"

(that was paraphrasing, but you get the point!)

that's what prayer is for - knowing ehat you've done wrong (or how you've done it wrong!) and promising you'll try harder next time - doesn't mean you#'ll have to succeed, it's the trying that matters!
:)

I used to pray for more patience, until someone said perhaps God is giving you more opportunities to practise being patient. Well I've had enough opportunities now, so I don't pray for that anymore!
I have a wise christian friend who had 4 kids who told me that her only prayer most days was " please don't let me kill them today".

love it 'patienceplease'!

:o at you running up and down to check up on the kids when they are sleeping,here is what i do,when i put DD to bed,i stand or kneel by her bed and lay hands over her,thank God for her life and hand her over to him for the night,i promise you i go straight to bed and sleep like a baby:o,why is that? because when we became christians we decided and acknowledged that God was above all things,and that He holds our lives in His hands,wouldn't it be wonderful if we trusted him with our babies?at least thats what He told me,or rather tells us'look at the birds of the air',the trees',who feeds them?yet they have life,how much more would the Good Lord do for us?,

the one thing needed is to hand them over and He will do the rest,and while you are handing over thank Him for patience,coz you already have patience,any woma who has given birth has patience,and shouting at those sales people is not going to change the way God feels about you,,He knows who you are,and loves you anyway

sorry,long post