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Tea Time Tuesday
Courage: the mental/moral strength to, persevere, withstand fear or difficulty.
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 42 years of marriage and 40 years of mothering, I know that every kiss, tender, gentle moment of talking, being patient, every late night feeding, midnight discussion with my bewildered teens and adult children, all matters profoundly. What would a world hope for if there were not great women committed to serving, civilizing, bringing beauty from chaos and believing courageously in the truths of God, even during dark times? Courageous women are building a legacy of faith, love, goodness.
I know your faithfulness matters, because serving my children, giving my imperfect best gave them an opportunity to ponder God, to grow beyond my meager offerings into their own potential for living truly in their generation. There is a sacredness of marriage, family, faith, life of human beings born into the world as tiny, dependent babies. And we give worth to these truths by daily being faithful in small places.
Your choice to trust God is ringing out cheers in the heavens because it is so rare. No formulas, no guarantees of exact results. 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. Faithfulness happens over thousands of days, years, of laying down our lives. Today, you are writing your story of faith and faithfulness.
Join Keelia and me today as we write the story of God's faithfulness through journaling and seeing God's goodness. Today, we are praying for you.