Mommy 101: lesson 1

Always put the cookies up where the children cannot reach them. This does not include the top of the fridge.

AC

Creative Types

Just the other day I was having a conversation with my friend about being creative. We were laughing because although we both love all forms of creativity (music, dance, art, theater etc.) we cannot do any of them. I said "Yeah, I can tell you if something is good or not but don't ask me to get up there and do it!"



The question of the day is: "What have you appreciated today?"

Show Me What I Am Looking For...

I have found that the older that I get the more I don't seem to know. I don't know how to install good character into my children much less model it for them. I don't know how to make cute crafts or do fun things. I don't know what to say to a friend that has a struggling marriage or is just been hurt by their mom. I am not sure what to do when your husband is gone for 6 months because of work and then how to reconnect the marriage. See and that is not even counting the things that I don't know that I don't know. It can be so overwhelming and big and crazy. It makes me at times want to give up.

The funny thing is a recently got encouragement from an unlikely source. I was listening to the radio and the song "Show Me What I Am Looking For" by the Caroline Liars came on and oh my gosh it is amazing. Here is the lyrics that stood out to me the most:

Save me, I'm lost
Oh Lord I've been waiting for you
I'll pay any cost Save me from being confused
Show me what I'm looking for Show me what I'm looking for
Oh Lord

This perfectly captures how I feel.

Save me, I am Lost and have no clue where I should go next. Oh Lord I have been waiting for you and I will give up self, desire, and wants to see You more clearly. Because I am not content to live this life wandering and waiting but I want to move forward in my relationship with you, learn more, grasp more, want more. But most of all show me what I should be looking for, show me what is the thing I need most.

Now this song does not solve my difficulties or the overwhelmingness but it does shed hope onto the situation because it reminds me that God honors a heart that is searching. (Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.") And that is what I am going to keep doing, imperfectly, is search for Him. Search in His word, in the world He created, in the people He has put in my life and know through my mistakes he can make whole and through my failings he can make complete.

As I am writing this I am filled with gratitude. So how has God proved himself through your mistakes today?

Poem for you!

I found this poem and thought it was so cute and perfect. i love how she perfectly captures how we have all these questions in our head and we only ask the least scary or say the least scary. So enjoy!

I Confess
I stalked her
in the grocery store: her crown
of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip,
her erect bearing, radiating tenderness,
watching
the way she placed yogurt and avocados in her basket,
beaming peace like the North Star.
I wanted to ask, “What aisle did you find
your serenity in, do you know
how to be married for fifty years or how to live alone,
excuse me for interrupting, but you seem to possess
some knowledge that makes the earth turn and burn on its axis—“
But we don’t request such things from strangers
nowadays. So I said, “I love your hair.”

-Alison Luterman

Independance Day

This is a beautiful post I found about the significance of today!

http://dailypieces.blogspot.com/2009/07/lest-we-forget.html

Prayer for My Friends

I got this email today and just loved the prayer! I am printing it out and putting it up so when I think of a friend to pray for this will be my prayer! :)

Dear God: The lady reading this is beautiful, classy and strong, and I love her. Help her live her life to the fullest. Please promote her and cause her to excel above her expectations.. Help her shine in the darkest places where it is impossible to love. Protect her at all times, lift her up when she needs you the most, and let her know when she walks with you, She will always be safe. Love you Girl!!!!

AC