Fast
Stop looking around for ways to affirm your self worth. Look up.
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Pray
Don't just tell God you love Him. Show Him.
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Give
Treat your children's feelings with the same care and sensitivity with which you epect others to treat your feelings.
Here is where I admit that I like Lent. After the busy happiness of Christmas and the inevitable juggling of schedules and commitments that comes with the new year, I like to peel back the layers of abundance and get down to the basics of relationship. Lent is renewal; it’s a chance to renew relationship with God, with family and with myself. Please read the rest here.
Thank you!
Fast
Think of a time when you knew you were a good wife or a good mom. Recreate that moment today.
Pray
When some small person tugs at your sleeve, remember that God's voice is sometimes very small.
Give
Be your real self. What does it matter if every person in the world admires you but none of it is real? Give the real you.
Sometimes I think that the devil drives the information superhighway. He claps with glee when moms log on. Lent is a time of discipline. Ascetism is about growing in self-discipline. This prayer helps me to see how I must order my time and my attention. Quiet stillness is a good thing. Idleness is not. Concern is a good thing. Despair is not. A home to grow in is a good thing. Chaos in that home is not. Encouragement and support in my vocation is a good thing. Empty talking is not.
Layer by layer, we peel away the things that stand between ourselves and godliness. We make more time for and pay more attention to the good things. And we leave behind those things that are not.
Thank you. And bless your heart!
Fast
Let the answering machine pick it up! Let your caller leave a message and only return essential phone calls today.
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Pray
"Blessed are the ears which hear God's whisper and listen not until the whispers of the world." (Thomas a Kempis
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Give
"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough; money can be got, they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go." (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta).
I'm Elizabeth. I'm a happy wife and the mother of nine children. I grab grace with both hands and write to encourage myself and others to seize and nurture the joy of every day. I blog here with my daughter, Mary Beth, a wholehearted young lady on the brink of adulthood.
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