NO MORE MOTHER'S DAY ADS!!!
I hate mother's day.....well, not really because I love to honor my mother and mother-in-law--but I hate that it's coming and I am still not a mother myself! I have no sweet child to slobber kisses on my face or doodle a sweet little home-made card or try to make me breakfast with daddy. These commercials are killing me....I want it all......
However, I was reminded at church about trials this Sunday....I hate trials.....but who likes them? I sure there are some misguided oddballs out there who enjoys the hardships but not me. I know they come but please don't say i should enjoy them.....
The title of my post was going to be...
JOY IN THE JOURNEY
see how far I moved from that to hating mother's day? Pretty sad.
We all go through difficult things, Christian or not. It's the joy from within that is our saving grace (literally). God promised we would have joy in the journey not happines or wealth or even security in the worldly things - only in Him. Joy is that "thing" that is deep within that assures us there is hope with Jesus-Not the giggles or the feeling of happiness or the rush of adrenaline. It's difficult to imagine that as a Christian we can have worse trials than if we did not follow Jesus. But rest assured - you probably will. That is the nature of satan and ther result of sin. We WILL have trials. okay - enough telling myself that it's normal.
So what does this mean? well, the journey of faith is not easy---it is tested. But God is faithful and full of grace! We are called to do difficult things. but if waiting for a child is one of the worst and hardest things God will put on us then we are blessed!!
For now I am looking up, looking to the sky and not on my life... I am trusting and I am full of hope. I have joy in my journey............it is a journey that I know will come to an end in an AWESOME destination!
posted by petunia @ 11:21 AM
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I came across your blog the other day so I have been reading it. I know you are sad because you don't have a baby yet but one will come.Why don't you volunteer at a library or hospital reading to children. Or check into foster children. I know how you feel my only grandchid was placed for adoption because the kids were unable to care for her. I do get to see her twice a year. So please hang in there.
Hi! Found you from gotchababy.
I just want to say, I know how you feel. We were there ourselves last year. Last May one of my sisters got me an Expectant Mother's Day card. It was so sweet! I'd been sad that another Mother's Day was coming and going right on past me, but it made me remember that I was definitely on the way to becoming a mom!
In our church, the priest always asks people to stand up - first a mom, then grandma, then great-grandmas (you see the pattern here). He includes expectant mothers. My sister elbowed me until I stood up. I was almost crying, but it wasn't just with sadness. I was happy, too, knowing in a place of God that I was being reminded of His plan to make me a mom!
Here's hoping you feel all the wonderful things this MOther's Day and that it's your last empty-armed one!!!!!
Thank you Storkwatcher and Carolyn for your kind words. I pray that you are right and a child is in my arms this time next year. For you too storkwatcher....I spent the day with my mother and at church they asked all the mothers, godmothers and grandmothers to stand. My mom poked me at said "you're a godmother" - i shrugged and got teary eyed when she turned. It was NO consolation being someone's godmother.....
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