Hidden BeautyI know a busy mother
With a thousand daily cares,
Who says each time I meet her,
“I’ve just found some more grey hairs!
It’s the housework and the children,
That are turning my hair grey,
All these problems and pressures,
Are just wearing me away.”
And I wonder as I listen,
While she frets about her curls,
If she had ever looked at a diamond
Or admired the glow of pearls.
If an oyster had a problem
And some sand gets in its shell,
If it covers it with beauty
And makes a pearl as well.
And a worthless lump of carbon
Hidden deep within the earth,
Changes form because of pressure,
And a diamond is given birth.
Without problems and without pressure
They would both have been sand or coal,
So let’s be thankful that our problems,
Can help to make a lovely soul.
~ Author unknown
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Your home is God’s gift to you, whether it is a little home or a large home. God created the home for the woman before he brought her into the world. He had the home waiting for her. Eve woke up to life in the place God created for her. The Garden of Eden means “delight.”
Dear mother, as you tend to your children in your home you are right where God wants you to be. You are in the perfect will of God. Be content and rest in the glory of your high calling from God. Did I say rest? And yet you feel as if you are overworked and underslept! Maybe you are feeling overwhelmed but as you embrace your calling and relax in it you will experience God helping you. When you have the right mind attitude it changes everything.
Grumbling and complaining is not the way,
If I engage in too many things,
Lord, please bless our home sweet home,
I thought that the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon because of his fame, wisdom, and all his riches. However, I noticed in 1 Kings 10:1 that there was more to her curiosity. Let’s read what it really says: “And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon CONCERNING THE NAME OF THE LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.”
Ever since my childhood
Motherhood does not end when the last child leaves the home. We are mothers until we meet Jesus. We will always be nurturing. A hurting world waits for mothering and nurturing hearts. And we as older mothers must keep showing the way of Nurturing and mothering to the next generation of mothers. We don’t do this by leaving the home. We must show the right example.
We either build up or destroy our marriage and our children by the words that we speak to them. Be a builder, not a destroyer.
Never underestimate the power of daily praying with your family. Imagine if every Christian family prayed daily for this nation! What great answers to prayer we would see. Praying families are nation changing families. Praying families are world changing families.
A mother has a ministry
Have you heard the recent news of how Paul Vaughn (a loving father of 11 children) and five others are branded as “convicted felons” and could expect 10.5 years in prison for singing hymns at an abortion clinic?
(A testimony from a Grateful Wife).
To keep your marriage brimming
What do you think is your husband’s greatest need? What would be your answer?
Don’t you think this is a good idea?