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Life in a family with children is often messy. It is one drama after another if you have teens. One mess after another with all ages, as they always seem to keep eating, creating dirty dishes and making messes. Children fuss no matter what method you use and no matter what book you have bought--especially with personality differences rubbing against the grain. All in my family are sinful— including me!—which means there are moods and attitudes and ups and downs. There are illnesses, mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual, that make relationships a challenge. Most of us carry baggage from our past lives that creep into our marriage, the way we view life and treat our husbands, and the way we view and treat our children. Oh, if we could only take some of the things we said back or start over again, we could do a better job!
I remember often thinking as I learned new things about myself and repented from some bad habits and ways of dealing with my family, that I needed to have more children so that at least on one child I could get it right!
Yet now, as I get older, I have collected some perspective. God has used the humbling circumstances of having a family and being married to bring me to my knees. He has used these very circumstances to humble me, and to thus develop more compassion for others who also struggle. What good would I have been to myself, my children, or my husband to have remained a self-confident, pompous Pharisee who was assured of right philosophy?
God's ultimate desire was to do heart surgery that I didn't realize I needed--in order to little by little make my heart and character more like Christ's--and so He sovereignly used my family and children to chisel the blemishes and deficiencies away.
I have realized that part of my problem is that I am a faint-hearted and conflict-resistant at heart; I do not like difficulty or challenges, and tire of the process. Yet, God somehow knew that deep in my heart, I truly want to hold fast to faith and trust Him and persevere rather than to get my own way in areas which would lead to my destruction.
Yet, the advantage I have now is perspective, from having lived through so many seasons and seeing that in spite of my fretting, stresses, and fears, God was there all the time, working, showing faithfulness and being patient with me in the process.
Join Misty and I here, as we discuss the ways life has been difficult, and what we’ve learned along the way.
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