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10
Ways to be a Happier
Mom
1. Life is not an emergency.
Life’s a gift.
Just. Slow. Down.
2. Now is not a forever grace but
amazing grace.
Do whatever it takes to wake to wonder right here.
3. Sometimes the slowest way
is the fastest way to joy.
Make time today, even a moment, to read Scripture and memorize it.
Without the lens of His Word, the world warps.
{Slowest=fastest to joy}
4. Laughter is the cheapest, holiest
medicine.
Preschoolers laugh 300 times a day. Aim for double that. Tickle someone,
(yourself!), if necessary. This is good!
5. Motherhood is a hallowed place
because children aren’t commonplace.
Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling
privilege.
Never forget.
6. Homemaking is about making a
home, not about making perfection.
A perfect home is an authentic, creative, animated space where Peace and
Christ and Beauty are embraced.
{
Perfect does not equate to immaculate.}
7. A pail with a pinhole loses as much
as the pail pushed right over.
A minute dawdled here, a minute scrolling here — they can add up to your
life. Write down your intentions for the day and prayerfully ive the intentions
and spend your life well by paying attention to the moments — which pays thanks
to God.
A whole life can be lost in minutes wasted, small moments missed.
8. Believe it: I have all I need for
today.
The needs of our day are great but our God is greater and we call Him
Providence because we believe:
He is the One who always provides.
{And when God provides, He should be praised, and
if God always provides, shouldn’t praise always be on the lips?}
9. Slow. Children at
play.
The hurry hurts the kids.
Time’s this priceless currency and only the slow spend it wise enough to be rich.
If we had to actually buy our time, would we spend it more wisely — spend it
more
slowly?
{God’s Word never says Hurry Up. God words only whisper:
Wake
Up.}
10. Love is
patient.
Parenting’s this gentle way of bending over in humility to help the scraped
child up because we intimately know it takes a lifetime to learn how to walk
with Him.
Patience. Love always
begins with patience and patience is a willingness to suffer.
Bonus:
The art of really celebrating life
isn’t about getting it right –
but about receiving Grace.
The sinners and the sick, the broken, the discouraged, the wounded and
burdened —
we are the ones who get to celebrate grace!
Regardless of the mess of your life, if Christ is Lord of your life, than we
are the celebrants out dancing in a wild rain of grace — because when it’s all
done and finished, all is well and
Christ already said it was
finished.
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