Motivation

Hopewriters Motivation Day 8
I am feeling very unmotivated right now. I want to sit on the couch, eat chips and do nothing. I am tired of keeping up and going in circles with laundry and cleaning. I am tired of mopping the floor only to have the dog with muddy paws walk in the door.

Sometimes I feel like a plump furry
hamster on his wheel going round and round. I feel sorry for that little guy. He doesn’t know he’s going nowhere. He runs until his little pink paws ache only to get off in the same place he started.
And sometimes lies creep
in and tell me the same thing. That I am going nowhere. They tell me my attempts to keep up are pointless and that my life of constant care for my home and family is meaningless because no one sees. No likes or followers to show for a day full of serving others. No raise or promotion or applause. Just a tired body and an invitation to do it again in the morning. So sometimes, I wonder what my life is about.
When I listen to these lies the couch and chips seem to lure me in, but there is another voice in the core of me that speaks truth and life.
He tells me I am seen and my life means more than I can even fathom. He tells me I growing people and building hearts and that the eternal stuff is unseen.
He tells me that I am valuable and have worth not in what I do but in whose I am. Then He tells me I am His and shows me my name tattooed on his hands. And reminds me His hands put the stars in space and His hands wipe the tears off my face.

And the more I listen to this part of me and soak in His deep love, my heart softens and melts into a river of love with His.
So when I hear the hamster wheel starting to squeak in my head, trying to have its way, I tell myself truth.
I know where I am going and God’s showing me the way. He is giving me His love and I have eternal things to do today.