The Calling To Mother
The sun came out, the weather is beautiful, the earth is green, and the most amazing transformation in all of this is my offspring… THEY’RE POSSESSED!!! My girlfriends were talking about this today – children and our roles as mothers. Just when our kids seem perfect they up and paint the cat purple or cut their sisters bangs down to nubbins. Whether they are a reflection of us or not, there is no excuse great enough to save the little mini-me when red Sharpie has been colored all over your white car. How can I raise them to be good? Am I doing something wrong? Why can’t they be the perfect children I see walking quietly beside the grocery cart with their mom? How can I know that God will be the ONE THING they cling to in life? The Holy Spirit wouldn’t let me rest today until I had read something so I picked up a book I hadn’t touched in a while. Stasi Eldredge, the author of Captivating, wrote these words and I wanted to share them with you. They caught me off guard but showed me a new