Trying to live for an audience of One is hard when the show of your life has begun and the glorious musical you want to perform is overtaken by a 3 ring circus featuring you, center stage. Moms live in a sphere of never fully attentive to anything but split between marriage, family, work and activities. From missing shoes to missed deadlines, something is always demanding our attention and blocking our view from the audience we have committed to serve.
Yes, living for an audience of One can be very difficult. But remember dear friend. Your Audience and your Creator are the same. Your Audience understands your life is a 3 ring circus because He designed it to be full of blessed chaos. Filled with sweet side shows, death-defying acts, and the occasional 10-15 little people jumping out of a tiny car. God created, loves, and values every moment of your motherhood. Don't loose sight of the Audience while you enjoy His creation.
Be attentive to His voice, be intentional with your time and treasures. Stop and take time everyday to celebrate and just be with Him. After all, the best shows are always performed for the Audience. Allow the show of your life to be performed and focused on the One who designed, created, and directed the show. Let Him show you the beauty in your circus and live for an audience of One as Christ takes the 3 ring circus in your life to destinations only He could ever dream or imagine.
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.”
Psalm 139:1-18 NIV
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