One Clean Counter Top

 So have you ever just cleaned one section of your kitchen counter top and just lingered there - staring at it, observing it's lovely cleanliness and wishing the rest of your house could be that clean, or at least just the rest of your kitchen?  I've been there, many times.  Am there still - right now at 8:06pm.  My feet feel like they're burning.  I don't want to look around the rest of the kitchen b/c the mess that is waiting to be cleaned is so far from looking like my lovely countertop that it's depressing.  Well, maybe not depressing, discouraging is more like it.  But every time I come to this point - which is often, with 4 precious children to look after - I say, "Lord, help me.  Holy Spirit I need your strength.  Thank you for your grace.  Lisa, just focus on one thing at a time".  I tell myself that.  Somehow it helps - I look at one small chunk at a time: one more counter, one more dish, one more chunk of dried dill potato on the dining room chandelier to flake off.  Okay, so it's not a chandelier, but food somehow makes it's way up on our speckled light fixture.  And I take the first step...I make a move...I put action to my prayer and self-exhortation...and then suddenly things are looking up.  And then a short time later, the kitchen is clean, relatively speaking.  My "definition of "clean" and my husband's definition of "clean" don't exactly match - and this is not a diss to him...he does a better job than I do!  But focusing on one small thing at a time works in every area of our lives.  There's so much I want to do and excel at, negative life habits that I am daily molding into positive ones - but if I look at all of it at once, the task becomes daunting.  If my eyes magnify everything that needs "cleaning and fixing up" in my life - it becomes overwhelming, discouraging.  So, I look at one small thing at a time and ask God for His help.  "...where does my help come from?  My help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth..."  If he can make heaven and earth then he can undoubtedly help me clean my countertops.