The Call

Ring ring , ring  ring. "Hello", this is your wake up call"!

 Life is a whirlwind! Do you feel like you are going 90 to nothing everyday? I sure do. Here lately everywhere I turn I have one more thing to do. It seems like the craziness will never stop. I am known to say "CALGON TAKE ME AWAY", often.

 I can't explain in words how good God is. I know it in my heart. I have to praise Him for my crazy life. I have a good business, great family ,wonderful church. I am blessed. Do I wish I could slow things down ? Yes! Seems like yesterday my sweet little girl was born, now she is looking at colleges and telling me all of her hopes and dreams for the future. Where has time gone?? Really was I so busy raising my kids and working that  I missed it? I mean I thought I took life one day at a time, but those days have flown by. I am not ready!  Next year I will have one in college, one in high school and one in middle school. I have NO MORE BABIES! It saddens me. It shocks me. It baffles my mind.

Ring ring, ring ring " Hello this is MY wake up call. 

   My kids have been my life, everything I have done revolves around them and my hubby. My kids don't need me so much anymore. What ever will we do?
 I tell you what I am going to do: I am going to get up and pray for my babies. for their future. For their mates. I am going to be here. To guide them, to advise them, to love them. To be an ENCOUGAGER . oh ,wait.... back up. I have been doing that. I do that now. I did it before they were born. I did it before I was married.  I prayed for them , as I did my husband. That part will never change!

We are the parents God gave our children. Not just for 18 years but for life. Now this role does change as they grow up and leave and cleave to the spouses God has for them, but we are still parents.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Prov.22:6 

Together my husband and I have tried to do just that.  We are knitting an intricate life, mixed with many different threads and personalities. I hope our life's tapestry will be the work of art God intended. For the sake of my children I will wake up, I will answer my call to be their mother to the best of my ability. I along with my husband will train them, guide them ,encourage them. So I will take the crazy, the hectic. I will take it all. For I know that I am shaping lives that will one day GLORIFY our LORD like no other. I will take the call! The call to mother.