The wife is away and I have little self control

So the wife and children are out of town for the next couple days for a little early Thanksgiving time with the in-laws and therefore I am on my own.  First, let it be said that I am not good without my family any more.  There may be wild ideas about doing whatever I want after work and though it is nice for an evening, it loses its appeal pretty dang fast.

But the bigger thing that I always notice when my family is gone is just how little self control I experience when my family isn’t around.  We are not talking about terrible hedonistic behavior, but more like eating almost 2 pounds of dried fruit.  I love the stuff, but 1. I would never get this if the family was in town and 2. I sure wouldn’t have eaten almost all of it.  The same goes for going to bed.  Without my spouse, I just basically stay up to all hours of the night.

All of this to say, that my wife and kids have an INCREDIBLE affect on my general day in day out routine.  This may seem terribly obvious, but it scares me a bit that my daily walk with Christ isn’t the real clock that my life ticks to.  Christ is the Lord of the large themes of my life, but if the life of Christ has taught me anything is that he holds minutia in extremely high regard.  He knows the number of hairs on my head.  He cooked fish for the disciples on the beach after TAKING ON THE WEIGHT OF THE SIN OF THE WORLD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.  My prayer for the rest of the time that they are gone is that Christ would be more the Lord of my small moments.

Thoughts?