Not much really going on here. School, household duties. Same old stuff.
I will say however, everyday I am learning and growing in the Lord and about myself.
There are things that I need to work on to help me be the person the Lord wants me to be. Things that I know, because the Lord has helped me, that I don't necessarily have to "act like an expert on".
Of course for those of you who know me know, it is mainly in the area of child behavior vs parent discipline that I am more apt to vocalize. Everyone has their own way of doing it. I my self have been blessed with at least 95% easy kids. However, I give all the credit to the Lord. Before I was even pregnant, I prayed over my kids. Their health, their happiness and their behavior. My greatest fear was for someone to dread seeing us arrive somewhere because my kids were unruly.
The area I need to work on is vocalizing my frustration over it when those situations effect me and my children. Instead of focusing on it and venting about it. I have to learn to close my mouth to criticism and open it to prayer.
As with the study I am teaching on this month. My words have consequences. My venting about and keeping it out there is only giving the devil ammunition to keep the situation going. My praying over the situation gives God the power to work on it and in it.
So I vow, and when I fail I do repent - sometimes daily, to only pray about it and know that the prayers of a righteous person avail much.
Thank you for letting me open up about my own weaknesses without judging but letting me be honest and confess my sins to my friends. Pray for me to overcome this and be who God wants me to be.
I love you all and cherish your friendship!
