i think she really means it…

Thoughts on Motherhood

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 | Sara the Wife | No Comments

I tend to over analyze most situations. I’m a planner and like to have everything organized and visualized before taking on important situations…kind of like a dress rehearsal. Why else would I “practice” teaching in the privacy of my own bedroom when I was a kid? I wanted to be prepared.

Over the last few weeks and months I’ve been thinking a lot about what it will be like to be a mom. I’m getting to the stage of my life when many of my friends are having children. I can’t imagine my life without children; it is one of the deepest desires of my heart. However, there is no dress rehearsal for motherhood.

I want to have it all figured out, but the more I think about having children, the more questions I come up with… Will our children be like us, or totally different? Will they love to learn as much as we do, or will school be a struggle for them? Will they be respectful, or challenge our every word? Will they grow to be the “shining lights” we pray they will be, or will they go their own way?

Ultimately, I know motherhood is a blessing. And, just as I commit each and every day to the Lord, leaning on Him to get me through difficult situations now, I will depend on Him to give me the wisdom and courage to be the mother He plans me to be in the future.

How I Spend My Summer Vacation

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 | Random Thoughts | 1 Comment

I am so spoiled! It is so wonderful to have the summer off…of course I won’t see another paycheck until the first of October, but I am grateful for the time to relax.

I have been doing a lot of relaxing these past few weeks. It feels great to sleep in ’til 8:00, and stay up way past my “bedtime!” I’ve been cleaning the house (top to bottom), making bread, cooking dinners (not out of a box), and spending time with friends and family. Last week, however, I had an unexpected adventure. It all began when I went to AAA to renew our car’s registration… › Continue reading

Welcome

Thursday, July 19th, 2007 | Random Thoughts | No Comments

Have you ever read the book “You are Special” by Max Lucado? It’s one of my favorite stories. “You are Special” is a picture book about a little group of wooden people called “Wemmicks.” They spend their days giving each other stickers in the shapes of stars and dots. If you’re a really cool Wemmick, who looks good and can do neat things, you get stars. If you’re a rather goofy Wemmick, who looks plain and ordinary and stumbles through life, you get dots. Punchinello, the main character in the story, is a plain and ordinary Wemmick, covered in a lot of dots.

One day he meets a wooden girl who doesn’t have any stars or dots sticking to her. He asks her why she doesn’t have any marks and she explains to him that everyday she goes to visit Eli, the carpenter, in his big workshop. Because of her relationship with Eli, the stickers that other Wemmicks give her don’t stick. Puchinello decides to visit Eli himself and find out more about the Carpenter. During one of his visits, Eli explains to Punchinello that he is deeply loved and that it shouldn’t matter what the other Wemmicks think of him. Punchinello is special because he was made by Eli, and He “doesn’t make mistakes.” As Punchinello slowly leaves Eli’s workshop at the end of the story, one of his dot stickers slowly falls to the ground as he thinks to himself, “I think He really means it.”

The last few pages of this story mean a lot to me. God, our Creator, has made each and every one of us special, and He certainly doesn’t make mistakes. The last few words mentioned by Punchinello as he leaves the workshop touch me so deeply–”I think He really means it.” It is my desire to live the life that God has called me to. Ultimately, it is God’s love I want others to experience through me. May all those I come in contact with experience this precious gift from our Creator.

I want to love others so genuinely that they will walk away thinking to themselves “I think she really means it.”