Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength

I've been thinking a lot on the verse "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." I've been meditating on it and pondering what each one means. What does it mean to love Him with my heart? With my soul? With my mind? With my strength?
Here's what I came up with. Can't say for sure it's right so let me hear your opinions!
My heart. One thing that comes to mind is the verse, "For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks," Matthew 12:34. How often do my words not reflect godliness? Truthfully, our hearts are where we hide sin. In Psalm 139, David asks the Lord to "search me, O God, and know my heart". Our hearts need to be constantly cleansed by the Holy Spirit because it's our nature to be sinful. So, how can I love Him with all my heart? By allowing Him to search it and reveal to me my sins hidden there, and then to confess those sins and leave them behind.
My soul. Our soul is the part of us that is eternal. It goes on when we've returned to dust. It's also the part of us that hungers and thirsts for God. In Matthew 10:28 Jesus reminds us, "Do not be afraid of those who can kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell." So we have to make a choice to save our soul. We must accept Jesus as our Savior and therefore protect our soul from Satan. Jesus also reminds us that if we do this, "you will find rest for your souls" Matthew 11:29.
My mind. "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed bu the renewing of your mind.Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing, and perfect will." Romans 12:2 How do we renew our minds? I think it's by staying in His Word on a daily basis - everyday!! It comes about when we memorize Scripture and repeat it to ourselves, when we pray ceaselessly and basically focus our thoughts on Him each moment of each day. And He gives us a great promise - we'll know His will, His good, pleasing and perfect will. Wow!
My strength. I think part of my strength is physical. I believe we need to take good care of our bodies so we can do His work! It's awfully hard to do anything for Him when we're tired, run down, out of shape. We need to take care of the body He's given us for His glory. I also believe we have to trust him for strength we wouldn't normally possess. "I can do all things through Him who strengthens me." Philippians 4:13. All things! Did you catch that? All things.
It boils down to this: If we let Him cleanse our sinful hearts, dwell on what He's taught us, give Him our souls for eternity and count on Him for supernatural strength we are doing what He's commanded us. And I can't think of anything better than the reward at the end, where He'll say, "Well done, good and faithful servant."

You've got your hands full. . .

If I had a dollar for everytime someone said that to me I'd be stinking rich. No kidding. I don't know if people can think of nothing more clever than that, but honestly, everytime I'm out with all my kids I hear it at least once.
I really need a good reply. I can never think of anything, but "yep". Wow, just about knocked your socks off with that one, didn't I?!
In all honesty though, I don't mind it. I think it's funny to watch people's reactions to us. They'll be looking at us, and then ask, "Are they all yours?" When we say yes you can just see their wheels turning, the eyes widen, the jaw drop. It makes me want to laugh everytime. And then comes the original, never thought of before response, "You've got your hands full."
I sometimes wonder what my kids think. I know they hear it, and it's said a lot. They don't seem to mind though.
Afterwards, I always think of something witty I could have said and think, Man, I wish I would have thought of that.
Right now, all I can think of is, if my hands weren't this full, my heart wouldn't be this full. It's crazy around here at the best of times, but I wouldn't change it for the world. I know for sure that I'll never look back and regret having a big family - I'll take the full hands!