Friday, May 14, 2010
What happened to TGIF?
Used to be blah Mondays and great Fridays around here. Now optimism is the word on Monday and Friday I can't take it any more. I love my vocation as a mother, but I do not love my negative attitude. God, I need You, I need grace this minute this hour. I pray for all the moms out there struggling with keeping up and feeling like they are failing. Help us to know Your love deep in our being. We are Yours in our being, not our doing. Once we recognize the Peace that is You in our being, our doings belong to You. I need You at all times, but especially now as I struggle through all the distractions, worldly concerns, noise, anger, defiance, decisions, health issues, doubts, and negative attitudes that pull me away from You. Help me to sort through this and and run only to You, where Faith, Hope, and Love reside. Help me to be like Mary, at her station keeping. I love You. In Your name I pray, Amen.
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Could I ever relate to this post! I'm with you...may the Lord help us to be like Mother Mary. I don't know what I would do without her.
ReplyDeleteSO honest and real. Thank you, thank you. Your life is so evidently beautiful and fruitful, and it's in the small everyday sacrifices that miracles will be born from. I prayed many years ago that I could be a mother and He answered me and has given me everything with which I could possibly need to accomplish that in the mundane day to day. Doesn't make it less painful, but I just think of how much more painful it would be if anything granted would suddenly change. You are never alone!
ReplyDeleteEven our wonderful Mother Teresa experienced "dark nights of the soul", as did St. John of the Cross and many other saints. Sometimes we don't see the fruits of our labor until much latter. And sometimes we hit a dry spell.
ReplyDeleteI have a dear friend that always tells me, "just remember these 4 little word;Jesus I trust you, Jesus I trust you." So when I get down this is what I say over and over again.
Also, the closer we want to be to Jesus, the harder the evil one tries to steal our joy! Hold on to that joy tightly!
I love your open prayer, it is filled with love and trust, it is beautiful!
Hi! Found your blog off Catholic Mothers Online and wanted to stop by! Your blog looks like alot of fun and your kids are just precious! I'm getting ready to start homeschooling our 4 yr old in August, so I look forward to reading your blog! Love how passionate you are for Jesus and our Catholic faith! God bless :)
ReplyDeleteamen amen amen...Thank you dear sister for not only praying for you but for all mothers...for so MANY struggle with this....
ReplyDeleteGod IS good....The good work that He started in each of us HE WILL COMPLETE...that gives me such hope and encouragement, especially when the days I face my own inadequacies. I continue to cry out to our Blessed Mother's intercession for my vocation as a wife and mother, a child of the Most High..to truly be all that He has called me to be..For Christ to increase and i decrease. More of Him, less of me, my wants, my will....