Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…”
“Really, trust in the Lord? Why not just trust myself and others, why trust in God?” my biking buddy Anthony asked me the other day as we were sitting at a small wooden table in Starbucks enjoying our steaming hot lattes.
Ever feel so frustrated as a mother that all you can think of are three things:
1. I don’t need this.
2. If only (insert child’s name) would stop complaining and just do her homework.
3. (unprintable)!
4. I need chocolate NOW!
I have and there are days when………..
#internet,#chocolate,#choices
Sometimes I wonder if we really appreciate all that we have. I know that I, for one, take so much for granted; living in a warm safe home, healthy (relatively) children, loyal (but, continually shedding) dogs. My friends, I have few, but they are loyal.
Sometimes I get so caught up my daily concerns and worries that I forget
We live in frightening times. The Middle East is crackling with unrest and death; economic and political upheavals in the United States have left thousands of people out of work and in financial ruin; birds and fish dying in unbelievable quantities, earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan thousands……….
The memories of my father are of a large man who loved to sing. Being half Welsh singing came as naturally to him as breathing. A tall and husky man I loved to hear him sing as he puttered around the house. On Friday nights, after dropping my brother and I off at the sitter’s house, he and my mom …….
There are so many books/tapes/videos on how to set goals, I kinda wonder if someone is telling us something. Perhaps that many of us are lost…searching for something that might just be right in front of us. Perhaps that something is called personal responsibility, doing the right thing or, as I heard someone say, “charting [...]
n this hectic world of parenting teens, time sometimes seems to flash by. Chauffeuring my teens to their appointments, friend’s homes and various events, along with health issues makes for a very busy and sometimes chaotic household. What strikes me as upsetting though is …….
In elementary school, my youngest daughter would continually come home telling me that the math her class was being taught was too easy and boring her. I urged her to tell her teacher about getting some extra work to do. But my sweet girl, being rather shy declined to do so. Putting on the parenting robe I contacted her teacher about this, and was pretty much …….
I think the hardest thing about parenting is seeing the ghosts and fears of my past returning to my consciousness when I am having difficulties with my children. George Santayana who was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
That may be true, but many times, especially as a parent, what I do remember……
