These
are 5 Things Time Has Taught Me:
1.)
TAKE A DEEP BREATH. This one skill is 90% of parenting.
The hard
times and the bad decisions- most of them- are not life threatening.
Many of the beautiful, mundane, glorious,
nuanced, obvious things of life should be savored by breathing them in. In
the good and in the bad, take a deep breath.
2.)
COUNT THE BLESSINGS. When a precious friend woke up Easter
morning to discover her three year old had died in the night for no apparent
reason, I was at a loss for words. The
worst possible thing was-Now. Here. Today. She began, instinctively, to count
her gifts. The birds outside the window. A beautiful sunrise. A gift from a
good friend.
Whether you are in the worst possible place
and need to get through, or the best possible place and need to remember, count
your blessings.
It
will change who you are in the very best of ways.
3.)
GET OVER IT. Life is not fair. Kids will misbehave.
Spouses will be certain they know every single thing about every single thing.
Money will vanish into thin air. Piles of clutter will mount.
But
through it all God is good and forgiveness is a balm to a wounded soul.
I see so many people stuck in the cemented conviction of
the lack of willingness to just Let. It. Go. You will always be better for forgiving. Always.
4.)
LEARN A NEW WAY. A motivational tape I listened to decades
ago said, “You have, right now, exactly what you want.” I didn’t really get it.
Since then I have figured out it is another way of saying what matters gets
done, what doesn’t gets excuses.
Maintaining
a death grip on the way you have always done things might not kill you
physically, but I have seen time and time again relationships suffocate, dreams
wither, and beliefs shrivel unnecessarily when there are solutions and change
waiting.
All you need to do is bring willingness to the table to collaborate with a better way.
5.)
SURROUND YOURSELF. With people who are better than you at some
things; who believe in you emphatically; who laugh at themselves and help you
to laugh at you; who want–desperately–to do life with Jesus, family and the
world well; WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN PERFECTION, except at the Cross.
Start
today to sow seeds of growth, connection and triumph. Surround yourself with
people who are doing the very same thing.
God
is good. Motherhood is good. Life is good.
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| Check out this amazing ministry-Brighten a Corner |
Nearly 13 years ago I went to a Women’s Ministry conference, had some pizza for lunch, and thought God was telling me to start a ministry. So I did...
All these years later Brighten A Corner, which is a mini Extreme Home Makeover, is still around doing our thing. We have completed dozens of projects, used hundreds of volunteers and have a total value of service approaching $2,000,000. God continues to takes my breath away.
I laugh, fully aware of the fact that I am wholly unequipped to do what I do.
The only thing that I have going for me is tremendous faith, mixed with (now) years of experience, and the ability to convince an incredible team of people to join in.Through it all, the madness of ministry, the mundaneness of motherhood and challenging family issues- including (but not limited to)-a child with special needs, a son who went to war on the other side of the world, a mother in law with dementia, a father in law with Alzheimer’s, an exhaustingly unstable income and a feisty personality...I have learned several things to share with you about motherhood and I hope that they have given you perspective and peace as a Working Mom.
Robin is the wife of a manufactured home selling,
airplane part inventing man who keeps her in stitches and mom to three precious
kids who keep her on her knees.
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