Of Which you can be Certain...

With so much of life up in the air and outside of our control, it's sometimes valuable to stop and appreciate the things you can always count on.  Marriage and motherhood have only served to demonstrate further both how little control I have over the majority of my life, and the few things that are Certain to Occur.

I call the following the "It Never Fails Laws:"

• If you straighten your hair, it never fail to rain (despite any and all weather forecasts)
• If you decide you to stay up late (because what the hell, just because your a mom doesn't mean you can't have a little fun), your child will never fail to wake up multiple times in the wee hours of the morning
• If you go grocery shopping without a list, (no matter how few items you need or how many times you repeat them in your head on the way to the store) you will never fail to forget something both crucial and obvious
• If you decide to risk it and boldly wear the same outfit twice (because you didn't get it dirty and there is No Way you will see the same group as yesterday) it never fails that you will run into someone who saw you the day before
• If you decide you will have a miserable time at an event no matter what...you will - it never fails
• If you only give yourself exactly the amount of time it normally takes to get ready in the morning on a day when you need to be on time for something, it never fails that the baby will demand to cluster nurse the entire hour before you have to go
• If you yell at your husband for doing something you have repeatedly asked him not to do, it never fails that soon after you will totally forget and do something he has repeatedly requested You not do
• If you get angry at a car that didn't stop at a crosswalk, it never fails that you will shortly thereafter get cut off by an aggressive pedestrian...presenting you with an aggravating opportunity to hold your tongue
• If you begin to get irritated with a particularly annoying trait of your mother's, it never fails that you will start noticing that you are doing it too
• If you dress the baby in an outfit you really really like and you want someone to see, it never fails that he will poop/spit up all over it, right as you are trying to leave to show said outfit off
• If you spend 10-15 minutes in quiet alone with God in the morning (no matter how completely impossible it feels to set aside that time) it never fails to make the rest of your day better
• If you vent that your husband never says "I'm sorry," life never fails to present you with multiple opportunities to "demonstrate" for him how to do so
• If you hold your tongue and choose Not to add your very accurate opinion about an extremely heated topic being debated on a friend's FB page, someone else will shortly do it for you - it never fails
• If you obsess over something a friend has that you want (being thinner, wealthier, having cuter clothes, a cooler job etc.) it never fails to become more and more important to you.  If you can rejoice for her, it never fails to cease to be a big deal

And Finally

• If you recognize that you are lost and broken, in desperate need of a Savior...God will Always reach out and heal your wounded heart, put back together the myriad broken and scattered pieces of your life, offer you not only Forgiveness but Redemption and Love you with an Unstoppable, Wildly Passionate, Forever Love. 

•  He Never Fails.