Happy Mother's day Y'all!! I am having a bummer day today so the Lord is really causing me to examine what I am thankful for today instead of going the complaining route! My husband has church pretty much all day today, and my kiddos are sick, so we are locked away for mom's day. I listened to Jon's message from last sunday today for my food for the day and it was so good. It was on Psalm 118, and the Lord was really speaking to me about being thankful,and when I do praise the Lord for something he is doing in my life to be specific..not just say the old generic "God is good" prayer. So today I am proclaiming that God is good for these reasons:
- He saved me from my wretched former life...whew!
- He gave me an amazing husband who loves Jesus first and leads our family to the best of his abilities!
- He blessed me with 3 beautiful children that call me" mommy"...sometimes a million times a day! It can be annoying, but as I am being thankful, I realize some people never get blessed with that privilege.
- His mercies are new every single day! :)
- He actually uses me despite my failures and shortcomings....It is amazing to me...if it were up to me, I would be the last tool he pulled out of the toolbox...He is so good and gracious! :)
- Obviously...there a million more reasons but those are just a few that I am chewing on today!
Ha Ha...as I am in here focusing on being Thankful...I just heard banging around in the bathroom, and Eva (she's 2) got into the Vaseline and had her face COVERED with the entire jar! :) A day in the life of a toddler....:) So anyhow...onto my next piece of mommy stuff for today. Someone from our church gave me this quite a while ago, and I thought I would share it since today is a day to celebrate our mommyhood! She wrote it:
July 17th, 2003 by Sheryl Heynen
There are these children who are stretching us and pulling us, tugging at us constantly; wanting us to be more that we were, wanting us to see what we cannot, wanting us to comprehend a language we don't speak-to understand a way of thought we never think. They want to change us, no ,we want to change them. They only want to be understood for who they are, and we actually want the same thing from them. God made them and He made us-so different, yet with many of the same weaknesses. There is both special love for them and a butting of heads. We've been put in authority over them by God himself. But, why? We are not smart about how to raise them, understand them, encourage them, or express unconditional love to or for them;although we feel it intensely.
Thankyou that we don't give up on them, because they deserve so much more than this 'missing in action' parent who just can't get it right. But we must not give up on...who?....ourselves.
An all out wise God put this very wanted child in our arms. HE KNEW! He knew we wouldn't become what they needed in time to give it to them. Oh, how we grieve this truth. Our all wise Father knew this. O Lord, use this in both of our lives and hold us not accountable, but RESTORE, RESTORE, RESTORE, and please comfort them and us, and pray....don't waste it.
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So if anyone is struggling this day, I thought this was such a neat encouragement filled with truths we all face as moms! Lord bless you on your journey in motherhood!
1 comments:
It's at the weakest moments, that the Lord of our life really becomes Lord. God was proving that to celebrate your accomplishments as a mother, He needed to make it evident to you what they were by forcing you to be thankful. I am glad you were able to see past the frustration to what He was speaking to you. I do hope that as you see the fruit of your labor that you will find peace and rest!
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