I went to the grocery store with Michael and Maddison. We piled and piled the food into the cart. When buying groceries for 7 people it feels like you are buying the whole store! When we got to check out the cashier couldn't fit it all into one cart so she split it in two. I took the two kids out with the first cart and started loading it into my car. Then the debate started: do I leave my kids in the car while I walk in and get the other cart? Or do I have them both come in with me? Before I answered this question there was a woman at my side asking if she could get my other cart for me. (She had seen me going through the line with Michael screaming and Maddie "trying to help.") I was delighted to take her up on her offer. She brought out the full cart and even took the empty one back for me. I whispered to Maddie, "I think she is an Angel sent from Heavenly Father to help us." Maddie smiled and responded, "Let's say a prayer and tell Heavenly Father thank you."
This was such a sweet tender mercy of the Lord and I am so grateful to have my children have these experiences with me. What a blessing.
This was such a sweet tender mercy of the Lord and I am so grateful to have my children have these experiences with me. What a blessing.
Becoming Perfect in Christ
"The wait for a perfect spouse, perfect education, perfect job, or perfect house will be long and lonely. We are wise to follow the Spirit in life’s important decisions and not let doubts spawned by perfectionist demands hinder our progress."
I
know that I am "waiting for a perfect house." It is hard to let go of
the hope of a continually clean home with "happy and obedient children." But the Lord is working on me. He is reminding me over and over again that I am here to have children and to find joy in them and not to have a home that is spotless or even picked up. I have to remind myself again and again to find joy in the journey.
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