Being Perfect

       We all try to be the perfect mother to our children, perfect wife to our husbands, perfect daughter to our Heavenly Father, and perfect daughter to our parents. The truth is, they aren't looking for perfect. We are. We are trying to be perfect for everyone; when in reality we are trying to be perfect for ourselves. Our kids don't notice that we are running 3 minutes late to the park and that we have a tight schedule. They don't know you burned dinner and that's why you are eating pizza. The every day stresses of being a mother, the perfect mother... In our eyes. 

       God still loves me when I forget to do laundry, he still loves me when I forget to get milk at the store, he still loves me when I snap and lose it and have a "moment." I forget that in all this stress, in all this mess, and trying to be perfect all the time for everyone I am forgetting that I may fail at times, but that doesn't make me a failure. It makes me, me. Human. Like you. 

      Today, I am praying that through all the mess and all the stress that I am able to never forget that God loves me, that I am doing the best I can with what I have. No matter how little or how much. I am important to God, my family, my friends, my child, and my soon to be husband. I have to find my purpose and find the joy in everything I do, every day. Even when it's hard and it seems like it's days away from bedtime. Me time. 

       I have God on my side, he is there to forgive when I fail, love me every step of the way, and lead me to where he wants me to be. 

-Sarah