For example, I have a lot of reasons I need to earn an income.

• immediate needs like more “fun” food
• monthly needs like unexpected medical bills
• extra needs like clothes
• long-term needs like paying off debt
• eventual needs like buying our own home

My husband works hard and provides all we need. Still, the desire to supplement his income, increase our monthly flexibility, and build a home-based business fills my mind often.

The Proverbs 31 Woman is very “industrious”, after all.

So, what’s wrong with me doing some work from home? Nothing. And I don’t plan to give up what I do now to help supplement our income.

But, I have had the opportunity to take on several work-from-home jobs. Over the years I have considered many options.

I have spent hours researching, discussing, and communicating with multiple businesses online. I have been in the process of taking the necessary steps to secure a few online positions working from home.

Each time I am presented with these opportunities, I pray for wisdom and guidance regarding these matters for several days. It always seems like everything is falling into place for me to go ahead with taking the work!

I am always excited, scared, and hopeful. Visions of money and my own business dance in my head.

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What really matters.

Then I come back to reality.

• While I sit at my computer all morning day, my kids are needing me.
• While I am busy asking others what they need from me, my kids are being ignored.
• I am still here, at home. I am still making sure they ate and had their diapers changed.
• But, I am not putting my best into my current job.

God answered my prayers for guidance through the noise and messiness my kids were making around me.

Through the frantic typing and clicking and reading that I was doing online while telling my kids to be quiet or not to bother me now… the still, small voice of God broke through and I looked beyond my screen at the little people surrounding me.

You are as much serving God in looking   after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

– Charles Spurgeon

I am already needed.

Here, at home. Away from the internet. I am needed to be present. I am needed to referee the sibling fights. I am needed to just be with my kids. Needed to be available, at all times. To hug & hold them. To listen & talk to them. To laugh & make eye contact with me. To learn from & teach them.

This is my job.

I humble myself.

I tell the hiring companies I’d been dealing with that I can’t do it. I withdraw my proposals and say goodbye to that extra money.

I can’t add more things that take away from the most important moments of my kids’ lives.

I don’t need the extra money, though I could come up with a thousand reasons why it’d come in handy.

We could benefit from it, after all.

Looking Inward & Upward

As a wife and mom, I need to first look inward at where my heart and priorities are and at the responsibility and desire I have in my own home to raise godly men & women.

And then I must look upward to find the wisdom, the strength, and the faith to continue doing this small work, in our small corner of the world… and that adds up to big things in the end.

Being a mom is more than enough. And no amount of money is worth missing these moments.

Be Encouraged, Mama!

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