When Your Children Need Something You Don't Have Any More of: Grace

I quit!!

Many times on hard days, these words screech in my mind.

But I can't.

I am Mom, and there is no substitute.

The five month old needs me. The two year old needs me. The six year old needs me.

They need me for full tummies and clean bottoms. They need me to help them learn colors and numbers and state capitals and scriptures and table manners. They need me to play, and praise, and sing and dance with them. They need me to wipe away their tears and kiss their bruises and hug them long.

The need me to teach them how to share, and how to give generously, even sacrificially. They need me to look into their eyes, and smile in their sweet faces, when they are talking to me. They need me to teach them how to have a quiet time, how to maintain a routine, how to value making healthy choices for their God-temple bodies.

They need me to set the example of how to be patient. They need me to show them how to pray for the family of believers, our sponsor children, and those blind, deaf, lame and lost in darkness with discernment, but not judgement. They need me to discipline them, encourage and direct them. They need me to model the freedom of following God's commands. They need me show them grace.

They need. They need. They need.

And this Momma... she runs empty... as dry as a bone.

Come over here to read the rest?... My friend Lindsey's amazing blog Out of Alabaster...