Quiet Times Through Baby Monitor

Have you ever felt guilty for slacking on quiet times?  I sure have.  I tend to be very legalistic.  I have my idea of how my ideal quiet time should look.  If it ended up being just what I envision, I would spend several hours a day in a quiet time.  How I long to be able to do that, but such is this season as a mom of little ones.

It struck me the other day that being legalistic about quiet times just doesn't make sense.  Do we want our interactions with friends and family whom we love to be super regimented?  Would they want us to be mired in guilt for not doing things "just so?"  Would they want us to go through a checklist to make sure we cover all the bases?  Of course not.  They long for genuine, heart-felt interactions with us.  If our sinful friends and family extend grace to us in our imperfections, how much more will our Father in Heaven, who loves us more than we can fathom, extend grace to us?

My best quiet times of late have come through the baby monitor.  Buggy sleeps to a playlist of all my worship albums.  I find myself caught up in worship to the songs that pour through the monitor.  These sweet times of worship in stolen moments as our little ones sleep (often during/after the night time feeding) have been more perfect than any quiet time I could structure on my own.

What do your quiet times look like in your current season of life?