Lessons from the Laundry Room

Laundry.  One of my most hated chores to do.  It's never ending.  There will always be some article of clothing or linen dirty and needed to be washed.  As a family of 5 and the only one doing laundry, it can get overwhelming to say the least.   Going to school full time and working 30-35 hours a week with, at that time, 2 kids laundry was always behind and never caught up. In January of 2009 I began student teaching at a school about 50 miles away. Add lesson planning and school work and an hour one way commute just made things worse.  I settled into the fact that I would never get ahead of the mountain of dirty laundry that seemed to be taking over the once large bathroom that I loved.  As long as enough was clean and the kids clothes were clean would have to be good enough.  Fast forward several months and I found myself expecting our 3rd child.  With the other 2 pregnancies, I really didn't miss a beat but with this one, if it wasn't absolutely necessary to get out of the bed, I didn't.  I felt nausea all day.  I felt week.  So needless to say the laundry was the furthest thing from my mind and it mountain continued to grow. 
Well I can finally say I am 'caught up'. As caught up as you can be, because as I said, there will always be something dirty needing to be laundered.  My Master bathroom is once again beginning to resemble the bathroom I loved having.  I feel a sense of accomplishment that this task that I once looked at as impossible and had giving into that thought and giving up on overcoming it, is complete.  Can I stop now?  No. If I do I will be right back feeling defeated by a pile of clothes.  It's a work in progress and if I want to keep on this track I will have to put in the time and effort to keep it that way.

Why this rant about the laundry? Because as I thought about how I once thought that it would be impossible to conquer the mountain, I realized I thought this way about other aspects of my life.  I will never be able to______. I can't ever go______. I will never be_______. But none of this is true.  All things are possible.  But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 It's time I start treating my life every day and every way like my mountain of laundry.  No mountain in life is unconquerable as long as I keep working toward the goal and holding the hand of God.