Sometimes the slowest way is the fastest way to joy.
Happy Mother's Day! Really...let's be HAPPY! So many times over the past two years I have had to stop myself and simply say, Be Happy - take JOY in the Lord! As a mom we all know there are so many pressures but I take pure JOY in the fact that serving God and accepting His love and grace are my driving inspiration behind each day.
I've read insights from the blogger, mom, follower of Christ, wife, etc. Ann Voskamp. Check out her blog here: http://www.aholyexperience.com/
Today I came across the following excerpt below - (She also has prayers for moms on her website that are very challenging...please check it out.) I leave you with the following...take heart...love God...and cherish your children, allow the Lord to guide you in His footsteps all of your days!
1. Life is not an emergency. Life's a gift. Just Slow.
2. Now is not a forever grace but amazing grace. Do whatever it takes to wake to wonder right here.
3. Sometimes the slowest way is the fastest way to joy. Make time today, even a moment, to read Scripture and memorize it. Without the lens of His Word, the world warps. (Slowest+fastest to joy)
4. Laughter is the cheapest, holiest medicine. Preschoolers laugh 300 times a day. Aim for double that. Tickle someone, (yourself), if necessary. This is good!
5. Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren't commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
6. Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection. A perfect home is an authentic, creative, animated space where Peace and Christ and Beauty are embraced. (Perfect does not equate to immaculate.)
7. Believe it: I have all I need for today. The needs of our day are great, but God is greater and we call Him Providence because we believe: He always provides. (And when God provides, He should be praised, and if God always provides, shouldn't praise always be on our lips?)
8. Slow. Children at play. Hurry hurts kids. Time's this priceless currency and only the slow spend it wise enough to be rich. If we actually bought our time, would we spend it more wisely - spend it more slowly? (God's Word never says Hurry Up. Gods words only whisper: Wake Up.)
9. Love is patient. Parenting's this gentle way of bending over in humility to help the scraped child up because we intimately know it takes a lifetime to learn how to walk with Him. Patience. Love always begins with patience.
10. The art of really celebrating life isn't about getting it right - but about receiving Grace. The sinners and the sick, the broken, the discouraged, the wounded and burdened - we are the ones who get to celebrate grace! Regardless of the mess of your life, if Christ is Lord of your life, than we are the celebrants out dancing in a wild rain of grace - because when it's all done and finished, all is well and Christ already said it was finished.
I've read insights from the blogger, mom, follower of Christ, wife, etc. Ann Voskamp. Check out her blog here: http://www.aholyexperience.com/
Today I came across the following excerpt below - (She also has prayers for moms on her website that are very challenging...please check it out.) I leave you with the following...take heart...love God...and cherish your children, allow the Lord to guide you in His footsteps all of your days!
10+ Real Helps for Really Busy Moms taken from www.aholyexperience.com
2. Now is not a forever grace but amazing grace. Do whatever it takes to wake to wonder right here.
3. Sometimes the slowest way is the fastest way to joy. Make time today, even a moment, to read Scripture and memorize it. Without the lens of His Word, the world warps. (Slowest+fastest to joy)
4. Laughter is the cheapest, holiest medicine. Preschoolers laugh 300 times a day. Aim for double that. Tickle someone, (yourself), if necessary. This is good!
5. Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren't commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
6. Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection. A perfect home is an authentic, creative, animated space where Peace and Christ and Beauty are embraced. (Perfect does not equate to immaculate.)
7. Believe it: I have all I need for today. The needs of our day are great, but God is greater and we call Him Providence because we believe: He always provides. (And when God provides, He should be praised, and if God always provides, shouldn't praise always be on our lips?)
8. Slow. Children at play. Hurry hurts kids. Time's this priceless currency and only the slow spend it wise enough to be rich. If we actually bought our time, would we spend it more wisely - spend it more slowly? (God's Word never says Hurry Up. Gods words only whisper: Wake Up.)
9. Love is patient. Parenting's this gentle way of bending over in humility to help the scraped child up because we intimately know it takes a lifetime to learn how to walk with Him. Patience. Love always begins with patience.
10. The art of really celebrating life isn't about getting it right - but about receiving Grace. The sinners and the sick, the broken, the discouraged, the wounded and burdened - we are the ones who get to celebrate grace! Regardless of the mess of your life, if Christ is Lord of your life, than we are the celebrants out dancing in a wild rain of grace - because when it's all done and finished, all is well and Christ already said it was finished.
Thank you for sharing this, Jen! It was great for me to read. I have recently discovered Ann Voskamp and I am so glad I did! Have you read "One Thousand Gifts"....it is amazing! Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDelete