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| My Lovely daughter |
As I seat here and contemplate my role as a stay at home mom, I can't stop to wonder if what I'm doing each day has any effect on my children's life. It is hard for me to consider that every moment I spend taking care of them and dealing with the many ups and downs of our day is helping them build a foundation that will last a lifetime. My goal as a mother to three little ones is to establish a Christ center lifestyle in each of them, but as the days go by my efforts seem to diminish. However just the other day my then six year old daughter told me she wanted to see Jesus, she said she was ready to go with Him.
At the moment I cringed hearing her comment, what does she mean by she is ready to see Jesus and to go with Him? What can this possibly mean in her six year old head? I wondered, suddenly as I try to decipher what she is telling me with a calm spirit I may add, I quickly turn to my Savior and prayed to my Heavenly Father asking to help me understand what my daughter is trying to tell me. After all, how I interpreted it is that she wants to die oohh-no, it can't be possible that she even knows what that means. But all I know is that Christ Jesus is in heaven seated at the right side of our Heavenly Father, so when my daughter expresses that she wants to go with Him I can only think that she means physically, right?
Well, to my surprise the Holy Spirit confirms that she doesn't mean physically going but spiritually. My six year old wants to be with Jesus in a spiritual sense, gweeehh, this makes more sense to me. Today I understand what she is longing for; she wants to connect with her Savior in an intimate way. How she can even know this? I mean at home I try to always instill the fear of the Lord and almost force them to pray. But never in my wildest dream did I think that throughout all the chaos at home, my children are actually responding to the spiritual intimacy that I'm trying to instill in them. As a mother I want my children to experience spiritual intimacy and connection with our Heavenly Father, it is my inmost desire to know that they are learning about my Lord and Savior through my actions and teachings. Nonetheless it is a moment to CHERISH and an encouragement to me, to know that through our chaotic life they are learning to fear our Lord. Today, Proverbs 22:6 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." (NIV) takes up a whole new meaning.
Dear friends I invite you to reconsider your life and the purpose for living, Jeremian 29:11 says " For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to
