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Does it really matter? All the days of messes, children bickering, seeking to form beauty out of chaos? Living through one more sleepless night only to find more demanding hours awaiting living through the same things all over again?
Or the endless, relentless days of cooking, cleaning, serving, correcting, and then repeating it all over again?
Or, the journey, even now, of working through relationships with beloved adult children, issues bubbling up, difficulties abounding, the risk of being misunderstood or even, possibly, the lifelong work unnoticed or misunderstood?
Now, after almost 40 years of marriage and 37 years of motherhering, I know that every kiss, every tender, gentle moment of talking and being patient, every late night feeding, every midnight discussion with my bewildered teens and adult children, that it all matters profoundly. What would a world hope for if there were not great women committed to serving, civilizing, bring beauty from chaos & believing courageously in the truths of God, even during dark times? Brave women are building a legacy of faith, love & goodness. Now, as a grandmother, I hope I can help bring about one more generation with a legacy of the knowledge & practice of seeing the goodness of God.
I know that it matters, because serving my children and giving my imperfect best gave them an opportunity to ponder God and to grow beyond my meager offerings into their own potential for living truly in their generation. There is a sacredness of marriage, of family, of faith, of the life of human beings born into the world as tiny, dependent babies. And we give worth to these truths by days upon end of being faithful in small places. I was young and now I am old and I see that it matters most.
Your faithfulness matters. Your choice to trust God is ringing out cheers in the heavenliness because it is so rare. There is no formula and no guarantee of exact results and we do not control our adult children’s choices. But they are more likely to follow truth if it has been lived out in myriad moments of serving, loving, feeding, listening, praying, teaching faithfully over years. The moments of lifegiving relationships, truth discussed, virtue modeled, happens over thousands of days, many years, lots of laying down of life. Today, you are writing your own story of faith and faithfulness.
Join me today and be encouraged in your own life to live faithfully. I am praying for you.
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