It's That Time of Week Again!
STEP 1 - A single word is presented.
STEP 2 - 300 seconds of thoughts are put to paper.
STEP 3 - A quick spell check and preview.
STEP 4 - The publish button is hit.
STEP 5 - I make a cup of tea, sit back and put my feet up, and join an online chat with others who are focused on that same word. {And yes, YOU'RE invited to join the fun!}
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Today's word is BEYOND ...
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| They're NOT Going to Say Cheese! - May 2011 |
The seemingly futile potty training and the mountains of clothes that needed to be sorted. The endless wiping of little noses that run like faucets and the changing of diapers that magically refill as soon as you put the wipes away. Walking the floors back and forth at o'dark thirty and feedings that seem like they'll go on forever.
I talk to the young mamas in my world. And with bleary eyes, they are trying, hoping, praying that they'll get through the day. The hour. Maybe even the minute.
And I want to tell them to look beyond today. If that's at all possible. To try to see beyond the toys strewn from here to there and the tantrums and the hanging on to your skirt and the repeated calling of your name. To see your calling in this season as a beautiful gift. The Creator of that child has chosen you to be his or her mama. And your ultimate goal, if you can grasp hold of it, is to raise that little one to be a man or woman of integrity. Of character. Of godliness. It's about instilling values, and shaping souls, and modeling Jesus' love and grace, so that someday, all the good things you pour into that precious life will become their identity, who they are in the depths of their souls.
Keep your eye on the goal, that prize, dear mamas. Look to who you, and He, want this little one to be when they head out the door into adulthood. And please don't get weary in well doing, because in the end, it will have been worth it all.
