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Children

Ah, children. We all started out as one. Every time bearing children is mentioned in the Bible, it is associated with blessing and honor. Be content with however many children your husband wants to be blessed with.

Children are a lot of work, eh? But they make life fun and meaningful if we triumph through it and embrace it.

Hour by Hour

1/8/2016

 
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One morning I woke up and was just so done with being a sweet, loving mother. I woke up and announced to God, "I cannot do this any more. I can't do it today. I'm finished." I had reached my Mommy limit with the children's problems and sin natures and I was done. 
I knew that little people were going to be waking up and coming into my bedroom any minute now. I was thinking: it's about to get Jerry Springer around here.
So I had a little conversation with God and it went something like this. I told Him that if He would help me, I would agree to smile at the children and be nice to them, only from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., and then the rest of the day I would let the grumpiness fly. 
When my toddlers woke up and came into my bedroom a little after 7:00 a.m., sure enough I held my arms out to them and hugged them, smiled at them and loved on them. I knew I could be mean at 8:00 so I did fine. Then at 8:00 a.m., I talked to the Lord and said okay God please help me be a sweet, loving mother only from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. today. After that I can act the way I really feel. So I did that hour. At 9:00 a.m. I said, okay God from now until 10:00 a.m. help me not express how angry, fed up and done I am. Just for that hour. I asked God to give me strength and grace for that hour.
On the day went. I did this, every hour, in God's strength, until I put the children to bed that night. I was loving and kind all day.



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    Jennifer Houlihan lives triumphantly in Georgia (USA)
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