Just your Ordinary *Super Woman*

Do you ever feel like you deserve this title? Or at least the outfit:)...HA!
Somedays I do or somedays I feel like I want to be able to "save the world".  I think there is merit in the heart of wanting to help even if you can't:)...others might sternly disagree.
Where am I going with this? I am a bit hesitant to say but alas I will speak my heart.

I feel like I've been out of my normal routine for over a year. Not completely out and not always out but not consistently in my normal routine either.  It's been frustrating at times. It has been a wilderness time for me.  During that time I felt like I couldn't give more of me to help because I was so far spent already....but at times still I did.  When I did, my heart wasn't completely there which made me sad because that's not me...I'm full of heart and compassion and I didn't want to be a dried up lady. Someone that isn't grateful for what she has, that can't see the joy in front of her, or someone that lets little things cause her to be unhappy.  What kind of  witness is that?  NO KIND I tell you! NO KIND AT ALL!  I'm talking true happiness not a fake plastered on smile to make those around you think all is ok...I'm not big on fake.  I can't do it well, lol. AND I think it's wrong...we should be true. If our "true'ness" is less than kind than we should work on ourselves or talk things through with the person that has hurt us.  

So, the wilderness...as I entered the wilderness it was intriguing to me.  I'm a strong nature girl, you see. The trees were tall and the underbrush was, in the beginning, thin.  The wilderness was not a bright as the open field behind me...yet I knew I had to keep walking forward...always walking forward.....
My wilderness...it scratched me.  It had me looking in all directions...always looking, always searching...my wilderness distracted me. I heard the voices and was able to do the work needed but my wilderness kept me. 
I was searching for a path, a trail, a way home, an easy way out but always the wilderness was thick and full of such undergrowth that the only path that I even could see was the one I made and that was the one behind me...I had to keep pushing forward.
Surely one day, I thought, I things will clear.  Someday, my journey won't be so hard to push through.

And so the story goes that the Lord blesses those who waits and delights in those who fear Him and puts their hope in His unfailing love. That's what I did....I waited...I feared....I hoped.....
I found a path:) I found a path that doesn't scratch...that doesn't have scary sounds in the dark.  I found a firm path.  It's a beautiful place.  The sun shines bright through the tall trees.  There aren't too many trees...just enough.  I knew the Lord was with me.  I knew I was never alone....although sometimes in my crazy, busy life I felt alone...alone amongst a sea of people.  I needed strength that I didn't have or I didn't think I had but you see....the Holy Spirit is within me...God in me..So I did have the strength through Him in me all this time:)
I still have my days when my journey has thorns or when I have a thick patch to get through but the nice thing now...the nice thing in this moment....is that God has given me a path to follow.  I don't feel like I'm wondering through a lonely wilderness.

If you Love your family and do your best then I say you're an Ordinary Super Woman! I don't think we must do everything and run our self into 'Robot' mode to say we're a good mom or parent.  Where's your heart? Where's your intent? Who's interest do you have in mind? 
That's the important thing in this business of Ordinary Super Womanhood:)
Are you an Ordinary Super Woman?