Summer is here! The kids are home! Routine is squash!
“Acclimate!” was the order our swim coach would bellow out at the start of practice in high school. This meant we were to jump into that cold water so our bodies could get used to it and we would be ready to practice. Oh how we hated that word!
Now as the kids are home from school every day, staying up later and the home is busy with activity, I keep hearing a voice in the back of my mind yelling out, “Acclimate!”
Where has my quiet time gone? Where was my secret place – it seems more difficult to find. What happened to my peace and why are those old thoughts sneaking in a little more often? Time to make some adjustments – time to acclimate.
I can’t let the day get started without taking some time in the secret place – but I can’t seem to get out of bed before the kids! I thought I could still get up at 7am and have some peace and quiet. But as the kids stay up later – so do I – thus sleeping in till 8 has been the norm for the past week. Well, enough of that. We’ve had one week of summer vacation and before it goes on any longer I need to establish a new routine.
Summer vacation is about ten weeks long. What a great opportunity to pour into my kids and encourage them in the way of the Lord. To make the most of this opportunity I know I need to have my time with Daddy God or whatever I do will be less in the Spirit and more in the flesh. Been there, done that – it doesn’t work.
Not to mention, if I don’t establish some kind of routine and keep my head in the right place, it seems that circumstances and activites take control of time. The next thing you know you’re running circles and nothing meaningful takes place.
So as coach would say, “ACCLIMATE!”
