Tuesdays and Tantrums

I've decided that Tuesday's are going to be a difficult day to write and yet a very, very important day in my life personally and my family's.
Tuesday starts out like every other day in our household-the babe yelling “maaaeeeee!!” from his crib and in the process waking up his brother.  We head downstairs and let the dog out for his morning necessities.  I prepare breakfast for the boys while Hannah sneaks downstairs and finds a warm place on the couch to finish sleeping.  The coffee, hubby's lunch and here's where the morning takes a different turn.  Instead of sitting around with the chickadees and talking about the night and Sponge Bob, I head upstairs for a shower so that I can make sure we are all ready to leave the house by 9AM.  For some reason this change in schedule causes such a chemical reaction to take place in all the little brains in my household that there are sudden outbursts of crying, shouting and hitting from all over the house.  Tantrums ensue as little people are disciplined and we finally make it out the door just in time for me to control my own meltdown.

Why, you ask, do I subject myself to such merriment?!  My answer is two-fold:  First, I find such belonging and support in the sweet faces of my dear friends and sisters in Christ who welcome me to our weekly Bible Study.  Don't get me wrong, my children are the blessing and joy of my heart, but fellowship with the Body ( Heb. 10:24, 25 )is instructed and needed  for every believer.

I find Sunday mornings to be so busy with not enough time to really get to know each other.  Tuesday mornings I am able to throw off my reservations, pride,( and children) and genuinely be a part of others' lives.

Secondly, we are using a study called Gospel Transformation, and it is just that, how the Gospel transforms our entire lives.  I  know that I am not alone in my feeling that this is a one-of-a-kind study.  Our group jokes together  at how we think this book should have a “Danger!” sign on it.  You delve to the very depths of your soul concerning sin and idols and wretchedness and then God shows you the great mercy and love he has for us by redeeming us and bringing us out of that bondage and into the light of His Son.  We learn about our adoption by God and how we are heirs in His kingdom, the rights that we have as His children, and yet it always comes back to His unfathomable grace. Oh, that of course reminds me of another great song many of you will know.  Let's sing it together:

Amazing Grace! how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see.
T'was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come;
tis grace that brought me safe thus far , and grace will lead me home.
When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun,
we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we'd first begun.

” Because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus”.
Ephesians 2:4-7