Autumn knows a mother's heart
It gives and then lets go.
It gives and then lets go.
Angie Weiland-Crosby
Showing posts with label encouragement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label encouragement. Show all posts
1/26/20
Encouragement For The Week
Children are not a distraction from the more important work.
They are the most important work.
C.S. Lewis
12/1/19
Encouragement For The Week
Christmas is what we decide it will be and that means there is a need to guard our hearts and homes a little-relatives, the media, the neighbors, friends, stores, your church, etc, will all come into play as an influence so it is right and good to set out in our heads what we want Christmas to look like for our families.
From THIS post.
11/24/19
Encouragement For The Week
People would much rather have your attention,
than your perfection.
Katie Deckert
11/17/19
Encouragement For The Week
you are not fit for a happy life
unless you learn to be content
in every situation.
contentment doesn't result in
having everything you desire.
it stems from showing appreciation
to the little thing you have.
11/3/19
Encouragement For The Week
We have to stop. Gratitude comes with silence.
It comes when we rise above our circumstances and look at the bigger stretch of life, not this moment in time when we are struggling.
It is floating above into the blue sky and looking down on your entire journey of life-what has happened, what is happening, what we want to happen. It's the ability to see our journey as just that-a stretch of time we are allowed here on earth to FEEL.
Pain is universal, suffering is universal. We are not and never will be the only humans who are walking through what we are walking through now whatever that could be. And many would trade places with us.
Thank God for the gift of time and all experiences. For beauty. For the one or two or if we are so lucky, the many, who love us. And who we love in return. Start with the tiniest thing. Know that the difficult, if we allow it to change us, can make us stronger and better-it's the unwrapping of those gifts that is the painful part. Know that the harder and deeper you fall, you will rise that much higher and feel joy that much more.
Everyone has a bad list and a good list. The bad things, the good things. It's the ability to focus on the good, and to find a way to make that list so so much longer than the bad list, that pulls us out of pain.
That is gratitude. A choice.
10/6/19
Encouragement For The Week
What if we just tried contentment? What if we accepted our homes as they are, linoleum, old cabinets, tiny closets, squeaky doors, hand-me-down sofa, and worked with and learned to love what we have right in front of us? I think our grandparents did this much better than we have ever done. Most of them lived in the same home for their lifetimes, and took such good care of what they had, whether it was the "in" thing or not.
9/29/19
Encouragement For The Week
Mother Theresa
9/22/19
Encouragement For The Week
Nebraska.
July 1937.
The Farmer's wife 1930's Sampler Quilt
Laurie Aaron Hind
9/16/19
Encouragement For The Week
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
I say, let your affairs be as two or three,
and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen,
and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
~Henry David Thoreau
9/9/19
Encouragement For The Week
But once I had children, as any mother will understand, my time was never my own again!
Children simply don’t fit into neat little time packages to be parceled out in advance!
Even now, the demands of my adult children take my time.
But I am thankful they come to me for counsel, for love, for friendship.
Now, it is one of my best gifts to have them as a best friend.
But relationship is built on a foundation of love given, time invested without resentment."
Sally Clarkson
8/18/19
Encouragement For The Week
Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family,
nothing we buy could give them as much happiness
as the gift of our awareness,
7/30/19
Encouragement For The Week
Direction
is so much more
important
than speed.
Many
are going
nowhere
fast.
7/21/19
7/8/19
Encouragement For The Week
You will never have this day with your children again.
Tomorrow they will be a little older than they were today.
THIS DAY IS A GIFT.
Just breathe, notice their faces, and little feet.
PAY ATTENTION.
It will be over before you know it.
6/24/19
6/3/19
Encouragement For The Week
If the grass looks greener on the other side...
stop staring.
Stop comparing.
Stop complaining.
Start watering the grass you are standing on.
5/20/19
Encouragement For The Week
Rushing and a tight time table does not equal happy moms or happy babies or happy toddlers. Settle in.
Settle in at home with your role as mother,
embrace it fully and trust that the time you give these years-if you give your children your attention, and structure and find ways to enjoy your days at home,
it will all pay off.
5/6/19
Encouragement For The Week
Every birth begins as a mystery, an enterprise whose outcome cannot be foretold. We think, "may all be well." And all is well - almost always.
But joy is only the beginning of the journey. And we must move forward, fueled by faith.
We can decide to be happy, make much out of little, embrace the warmth of our ordinary days.
Life unfolds as a mystery. An enterprise whose outcome cannot be foretold.
We do not get what we expect. We stumble on cracks, are faced with imperfection, bonds tested and tightened. And our landscapes shift in sunshine and in shade.
There is light.
There is.
Look for it.
Look for it shining over your shoulder on the past.
It was light where you went once.
It was light where you are now.
It will be light where you will go again.
3/25/19
Encouragement For The Week
Peace is the beauty of life.
It is sunshine.
It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother,
the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.
It is the advancement of man,
the victory of a just cause,
the triumph of truth.
Menacham Begin
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