making time in the utterly mundane

"There simply are not many grand moments of life and we surely don't live in those moments. 

No, we live life in the utterly mundane. 

We exist in the bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. 

This is where we live the life of faith."

[ Paul David Tripp ] 

Before I had Ethan, I struggled to make time to read my Bible, to pray, to be still.

Silly, now that I think back on all of the uninterrupted time that I had and of the many hours that I had spent doing little, unimportant things; even more so to the time (not too long ago) that I still lived at home. After Ethan's birth, I vividly remember feeling like a little girl again, trying to keep her head above the water in the deep end of the pool; I couldn't possibly imagine doing anything other than eating, nursing, sleeping, and making lightning fast trips to the bathroom, As time went on I got a better handle on nursing, I was recovered enough to make my own food and do laundry, we started going for walks in the evenings, this new "Normal" began to feel like our own again.

Now, I'm a Mama to a six month old, 15.5 pounds of Love and I'm getting even more accustomed to life with a little one and I'm asking myself, when do I have time to have a Quiet Time? After mulling over my schedule, I realized that I can't. I don't have a time in my day when my home is peacefully quiet, there is nothing else to be done, or Someone needs to be nursed/changed/put to bed.

My time simply doesn't look like it did before I got married and had a baby.

Huh. Go figure.

Once I realized that I was trying to recreate my pre-married schedule in my married/mama life, I began looking at my day anew and discovered that I can certainly dig deep into the Word. 

While Pumpkin is splashing in the bathtub, or right after I workout in the precious quiet of the morning, or even while Ethan is gnawing on a spoon during rug time. My home doesn't have to be completely quiet and it doesn't even have to be at the same time each day. In the midst of her day and the bustle of her home, Susanna Spurgeon was known to throw her apron over her head and pray.

Whatever it looks like to block out the Need of the Minute and be still before the Lord. 

That's what I need to be striving for each day and not recreating the quiet times of my teenage years.

One thing that I've found to be especially helpful while I'm reworking the Word into my day, is this Give Me Jesus journal from Life Lived Beautifully. You pick your text each day and are able to methodically expound and meditate on it; besides having a beautiful cover, it's filled with encouraging scriptures and quotes to spur you on in your daily devotions. 

Nope, this isn't a sponsored post; I'm promoting this of my own initiative and won't be paid. ;)

So, whether it's reading a few chapters while cooling down from a workout or writing in my prayer journal while avoiding being splashed with bath time water, I'm learning what it means to pray without ceasing, to give thanks in all circumstances, and to simply be still, know that He is God. 

How do you seek Him in the midst of your Mundane? Aside from His perfect scripture, what resources do you find useful in your daily walk? What ways do you feed your soul?