It's a Joy!

It's a Joy!
I'll never forget the day my husband and I first found out that we would be the proud parents of a little baby girl. As the ultrasound tech. was gliding that little magic wand over my, what seemed to be at the time, "as big as it gets" belly, I remember the anticipation I felt.  Is it a boy?  Is it a girl?  Then, came the words, I secretly had hoped to hear..."IT"S A GIRL!"  Whew, hew...pink bows and sweet little dresses here I come!
Fast forward several months later and you would see me sitting alone in my living room, holding my firstborn child, with a copy of Babywise, close by.  It was our first week together, all alone, just she and I.  "What do I do now?"
  Before that week had come, I had it all figured out, or so I thought.  Much planning had taken place, many hours were spent prettying up her pink little room and much weight had been put on as I carried this precious gift I had been given.   From the way she came in to the world to the way I felt that first few weeks of her life, I should have known that no amount of planning could prepare me for what mothering would be.  No amount of book reading could educate me enough to leave me knowing how to handle every situation.
Fast forward to today and you will find me still in awe of what the Lord is doing.  Still in awe of each child HE blesses us with.  Still baffled with how wrong I can be sometimes. Still humbled by the fact that my Lord has called me to mother this child and now others.  Praise His name!!!
It's a joy!!!
As I begin writing here, I pray that the Lord will use this place as a way of encouragement to other moms out there.   I believe, with all that I am, that "My God shall supply all my needs".  He always has!  I believe, with a passion, that each and every life is created "by Him and for Him".  In this, I see that the lives He created inside of me were for Him and that through Him, HE will supply all I need, as a mama, to love them, train them and proclaim His name in our home each day. Psalm 16:11 says "Thou wilt show me the path of life; in thy presence is fullness of joy; at the right hand there are pleasures forevermore." What a blessing to know we can trust His words as we walk this path of mothering.