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"My grace is sufficient": Our first family communion

"My grace is sufficient": Our first family communion : I am a mom who has a deep desire to share God's love with my kids. I want them to understand the wholeness of Jesus. I want them to fall...

Our first family communion

I am a mom who has a deep desire to share God's love with my kids. I want them to understand the wholeness of Jesus. I want them to fall deeper in love with Him than I am. I want them to do extreme work for His kingdom. And as a parent, my deepest desire is for my kids to experience Jesus. For all that He is. But I fail all of the time at this. I am a sinner. I try so hard to lead them by example. I pray daily for each kid; that they would know Jesus. But I'm messy. I'm literally a disaster. I get frustrated, argumentative, short tempered, and a lot of what the Lord says about "slow to anger" goes out the window when I have asked for the 400th time "would you please brush your teeth." (I'm glad the verse does not say never get angry, or I would consider myself even more unworthy than I am now to raise these kids). Taking all of this knowledge of myself into consideration, I still did not let my heart from dreaming and picturing the perfect evening