6:30 a.m. & coffee

Someone please tell me, can "mom" and "quiet time" even go in the same sentence? Maybe "quiet two minutes"!

This past Sunday in our weekly marriage class, we were newly challenged to keep our personal time with the Lord as the top priority that it should be, so that all our other priorities and relationships would be in their right place. My first reaction is at the beginning of this paragraph. My thoughts continued:

Seriously, the only time I could possibly have any quiet time alone would be before everyone is up in the morning, including the sun! And I'm just not willing to do that.... wait, what did I just say? Oh well, it would be so legalistic to make this poor tired mama get up that early...of course nobody would expect me to do that! Right?

But after this internal thought process, something inside was still unsettled. Don't I want more than this routine life? Don't I want my kids to have a mom filled with God's love and joy? Don't I know my life would be different if I gave God the right to my time and schedule?

But I'll be exhausted, crabby and even more coffee-addicted. And it will be so hard to stick to it and then I'll feel guilty. And that's legalistic.

That's about when I told those thoughts to shut-up.
Making a difference in my own life and the lives around me is what I want to do, and who said it was easy? I think I can trust God enough with my tiredness and...well, everything.
So 6:30 a.m. & coffee it is. God knows I'm not a morning person, so I need all the help and motivation I can get (like the accountability that putting this out there will hopefully give me).

Any moms out there have any secrets to making time to spend with God? In case I need to adjust my current plan. :)