Well It is summer time again. I must admit this is my favorite time of year. I love summer for many reasons here are just a few. The beach is my favorite place on earth give me a good book a lawn chair and I could sit for hours on end. I love the freedom from having to worry about a schedule with my children if we want to stay up late and watch a movie or go fishing we can…fishing that is another thing I love to fish it is so relaxing to me to just sit and fish. Summer just represents spending time with my family and that is something I love to do. I enjoy being outside and watching the birds and the butterflies in our yard…the smell of the confederate Jasmine and the Honeysuckle are wonderful. I don’t take for granted the times I am able to sit outside and watch my children swim and hear them laugh and do silly things together. I love the warm weather I am not someone who likes cold weather so summer is my season. I just come alive during this time of year even spiritually…it is like something awakens in my spirit and I feel more alive. Summer is here and I intend to enjoy every minute of it!
ProChoice:Choosing to Mother May 13, 2008
We had an awesome Mothers Day at Crossway Church . We were able to hear from four of our mothers and hear somethings about there lives that most people never knew. I was so thankful that these women of God allowed themselves to be so vulnerable and let me share the intimate details of their past in order that other mothers might learn and allow the Holy Spirit in to minister in their lives…to know that we all have to make a Choice to mother even when life is hard. We have to Choose to mother even when things are not going the way we thought they should or the way we prayed that they would. Sometimes it is that drive to mother that may bring us out of the pits of despair even make us realize we must live when we really don’t want to! Deuteronomy 30:19 Says ” Now Choose life so that you and your children may live.. We found out Sunday, we have a wealth of Godly women among us to mentor our young mothers and not so young mothers…women who have been there and know what it is like to not want to go on or know what it is like to have to parent their children even when things are not as they should be! The Bible says “We can do all things through Christ who Strengthens us. So even when we have made wrong Choices we can turn our lives around and the lives of our children through prayer and yes maybe we will have times of things not being like we want or the way they should have been but that does not mean we just stop mothering…We get up every day and we make a Choice to be the BEST mother we can with the circumstances we are in at the time. We get ourselves a church Family, we get grounded in the Word of God, we make positive confessions with our mouth, we find a woman of God and we make ourselves accountable to her…and we will have Children who will “Rise up and call you Blessed” Proverbs 31:28
