It is at our mother's knee that we acquire
our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
~ Mark Twain
How can a mother blog when her daughter is busy writing a book on the computer during the summer? This is her fun, truly!our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
~ Mark Twain
How can a wife write a blog post she intended to when her husband writes it first? I inspired it through an email I sent to him, honestly!
As I ask those questions I'm encouraged. My goal is to always support and set up those in my household to do what God intended for them. I have a role behind the scenes that isn't often noticed by the public but is appreciated by those I serve.
So, my journey at present is to help my girl edit her creative work and continue to inspire my husband.
7 comments:
Dear Amy,
Thank you for visiting my blog.
The comment you wrote, part of which quoted the words of Jesus to Martha, spoke deeply to my heart.
I need to keep my focus, we mothers do.
God delights my heart time and again by leading me to the blog that my heart is looking for. There are many good blogs and if I had my way, I could spend many precious hours just reading them.
I don't mean just any blog that looks nice, that has a Christian theme, that is well written.
My heart is looking for a heart to heart connection in blog land that can turn out to be such a forest on any given day.
It's easy to be lost.
So I thank you for finding me.
Your blog is the kind I am looking for.
And like you, I love waterfalls.
Thank God for you.
Your post takes the very words out of my heart.
I have also just visited your hubby's most recent post on the gilded cage. I still have tears from reading it.
Love
Lidj
Amy, I am of the same mindset. Holding up my husband and son so that they have opportunity and influence for the Lord.
If there were more women like you out there... well, there'd be a lot more posts written like your husband's!
Lidj,
Thank you for your tender comments to me and my dear one. I also understand the vastness of the blogging world and how you can get lost in reading many good ones. I've found that I needed to keep it with those I personally know and a few others that I find endearing...I find the prioritizing very freeing and I do not feel that I'm missing too much. I blog because I find it helps me process further what I'm learning and what God is teaching me. The blogging friends I find on the journey are like the icing on a bundt cake....delightful but not the cake itself.
Sister Sheri,
Thanks for the affirmation and being a kindred spirit in understanding my lack of blogging. I'm glad that the behind the scenes mothering can be encouraging to another. However, I'm looking forward to school beginning and getting to the computer a little more often.
Dear Amy, you write of such a high calling! And through your writing, I sense your great love and devotion to your precious family! That speaks of the heart of Christ!!!
Bless you, dear friend, for your dedication!
I understand the "pull" of family. I still have many distractions, too, though I am a grandmother now. But, family comes first, and thankfully so! I love mine, too!
I hope you are doing well. You have been on my mind. I hope your pain is better.
I hope you received an email I sent a while back. It was just to let you know I appreicate you and your thoughts and prayers.
Take care. Many blessings to you and your family.
In Christ's Love,
Andrea
Amy,
Serving our family. Sacrificing for our family.
Is serving Him.
Nothing brings Him more glory.
Sweet dreams.
Some very worthy goals; if I've understood anything over the past two weeks, it's my "behind the scenes" role in the life of my family. Yesterday, I threw a full out pity-party for myself along these lines. In the midst of my "letting go", I just wanted someone to call and remind me of how much I was needed and appreciated. And then, around 9:00 PM, I got that call. Eldest son safely nestled in his new apartment at college, reminding me of his love and thanks for all I've done.
And that was enough ... all I needed to keep moving and doing what I need to do, some days despite the lackluster excitement to go with!
peace~elaine
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