FMF: Again

It's friday and that means it's time for Five Minute Fridays!

Here's my five minutes on "Again".

A mother's life is full of agains. Doing the laundry. Again. Loading the dishwasher. Again. Changing a diaper. Again. Having to give the 7-year-old a talking to. About the same exact thing. For the hundreth time today.
Again. Again. Again.
Sometimes, I feel like all the "agains" will drive me crazy.
But, then there are the agains that make up for all the crazy ones.
My daughter gives me a kiss when I ask her to. Again. And again.
My boys surprise me with their creativity and imaginations. Again.
My husband compliments the meal I made. Again.
God gives me grace and love. Again and again and again.
Looking at the word, pulling it apart and what do I see? A GAIN.
And, whether it's something that is threatening to drive me crazy or it's something that fills my heart to overflowing, it's a GAIN.
A Gain in clean clothes to wear.
A Gain in clean dishes to eat off of.
A Gain in LOVE so completely given that it takes my breath away
A Gain. God, let me always see the word "again" as "a-gain".


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