I came across this quote in a book I recently purchased that I can already tell is going to turn my world, as I know it, completely upside down. How do I know this? Well, just read the quote that is at the very front of the book "Keep A Quiet Heart" by Elisabeth Elliot. Take your time and read it (and re-read it) slowly. Not because I think you are dim-witted but because it was written over a century ago and the language reflects it. But the message within is worth the effort - worth it for us as moms and as children of God.

"I think I find most help in trying to look on all the interruptions and hindrances to work that one has planned out for oneself as discipline, trials sent by God to help one against getting selfish over one's work. Then one can feel that perhaps one's work--one's work for God--consists in doing some trifling haphazard thing that has been thrown into one's day. It is not a waste of time, as one is tempted to think, it is the most important part of the work of the day--the part one can best offer to God. After such a hindrance, do not rush after the planned work; trust that the time to finish it will be given sometime, and keep a quiet heart about it."