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This morning I have been given a rare gift- a house with no one in it but myself and my dogs.  My husband usually gets 1 day off work every other week and it just happens to be today.  What is amazing is that he has vacation days to burn before the end of the year and that means that I get a day like this tomorrow too.  Granted, it is just for 2 hours while my children are at school, but that is 2 hours that I haven’t had.  I am sitting here deliberating if I should blast my music or enjoy the quiet.  Should I turn on a movie that I like watching but most likely wouldn’t watch with my kids here?  I know I will be CLEANING while I don’t have the destruction crew here. 

It is so weird to get some time off.  I am sure that you all have felt like that before.  Vacation for moms isn’t really a vacation at all when the kids are there, their work follows them.  So this 2 hour break is amazing to me right now.  Sometimes we just need to be refreshed.  We just need to have some time for ourselves to sit and take time off from the reality that is life.  My reality is still surrounding me and I know that I am going to have to clean and get lunch on the table still, but the obstacles that usually make this happen are MIA right now. 

It is important that we take time to refresh ourselves and take time to breathe.  Jesus was so popular that he was constantly in the public eye.  He never really would get a good long break.  No matter what he did, he was teaching.  Even when it was just him and his disciples, he was still “on” teaching.  Only when he would escape into the presence of the Most High would he get a break.  Only when he would stop and pray would he get a break. 

Prior to Him starting to preach, he was lead by the Spirit into the desert for 40 days.  This was time away from the realities of the real world.  Time that he was able to call on the Lord and time that he was able to really find out who He was as a man.  Although he was the son of God, he had to do similar growing up just like we all have had to.  And although he was away from his realities, he was still being tempted.  Jesus though, took time away from the crowd, away from the noise and the hustle and bustle of life and really sought the Lord.  He really sought out a realationship with His Father and we need to do that too.

Maybe we are ready to start something big, a change in our lives.  We really need to seek out God.  Read Matthew 4, where Jesus is tempted.  Take some time out of your schedule to take a break and really seek God, not just passing by, but really seek Him. 

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