Sometimes in life we must rehearse what we know, review what we’ve lived and beg the Lord for mercy to keep walking in truth.
If I’ve ever needed reminders such as this post from the archives, it is now. Let’s pray for each other that the storms of life don’t distract us in the important places.
The most important things in life are often the most simple…and that’s why they are so easy to miss…or forget.
Relationships…could there be any thing more important on earth? Our relationship to God defining and conforming our relationships to others is the very essence of life. Why is that so hard for us?
Motherhood is made up of that complex design that requires so much from us, and yet requires so little.
There is so much to be done, and yet what our children need from us is not hard. Time, tenderness, instruction and direction. They need to walk alongside us in life. That is how we impart to them what is important. That is how they come to trust us and believe us and allow us to transmit the great lessons of life. Do I let them into my life? Or do I shoo them away so I can get more done?
Does the pressing list of my day rob my children of a first-morning smile? Does my schedule squeeze out a mid-day hug? Can I let them into everything–the essence of building relationships, speaking through my actions, “You are important to me right now”?
Do they know they are valued, and that I like being with them? Do I converse with them, ask questions and then listen to the answers? Do I give them a chance to be who they are?
A few years, and my building time is gone. Their cement foundations will be dried and firm. Am I letting God’s Word become real in my relationships?
Standards are good. Guidelines, necessary. Principles and even concrete “family rules” are appropriate.
But those will only produce the real fruit we desire if our children know that we love the Lord above anything else, and that what we do as a family springs from that love.
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