Snapshot of Motherhood

I found these three things in my hand and it made me pause (and chuckle):


Mama's prayer journal (containing favorite prayers, prayer requests and intentions, scripture quotations)

A kitchen timer ("Please, children. I want five minutes to pray. Can you be sweet for five minutes? Don't misbehave so I have to interrupt my praying, okay? Please, five minutes?")

A wet diaper (because I'm usually changing some body's diaper, including in the midst of praying--gives me opportunities to try to "pray unceasingly," as St. Paul says, to turn all works into prayer)