I Did All That For This?

A "would-be dinner, a dead car battery, yelling children." "Is it all worth it?" a mother wonders.  When the clean room is messy again or the clean child turns up dirty again, or the lovingly planned activity didn't go as desired, we might ask ourselves, "I did all that for this?" 

I like Julianne Heywood's perspective in this article. She looks at times when she catches glimpses of why she does what she does. She turns the "I did all that for this" from a question into an affirmation. 

She reflects on taking her family to see the Christus statue. They looked at the nail marks in Christ's feet. They looked at the marks in HIs outstretched hands, and "talked about how He got the wound in His side." She realized He did all that for her and her family.