This post made me cry this morning...as her posts often do.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/search/label/Walk%20with%20Him
She really has a way with words...so pure of heart...(Megan, thank you for introducing me to her)
In pondering Ann's post...one thing stood out from all the rest...LOVE is in the doing...
I'd like to speak specifically to Mommies this morning, if I may...though really, this could apply to any of us at any stage in our lives...and yes, if you are reading, even you men too. ;)
So Mommies...
Did you know that...
Love IS washing the dishes...?
Love IS doing the laundry...?
Love IS cleaning the bathroom...yes...ESPECIALLY the toilets...?
Love IS kissing a skinned up knee...?
Love IS making dinner...?
Love IS baking favorite treats...?
Love IS driving your children to school...?
Love IS rocking your baby to sleep...?
Love IS reading a bedtime story...?
Love IS changing a stinky diaper...?
Love IS making the beds...?
Love IS sweeping the floor...?
Love IS just being there when they need you...?
Love IS taking the time to be silly...?
I could go on and on and on because you all know that there is no end to our job as a Mommy...
Love IS all of those things and so much more...
Our actions speak so much louder than words...and though very often, we can't see past the drudgerous (not a word) monotony of our every day duties...through them, we are speaking to our children (and our husbands etc)...
We are telling them...LOVE. It's being written on their hearts.
And ya know what they say back to us?
You are my hero.
I know this because my mom is mine.
Today...
LOVE.
Just do it.
XO
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
-- Robert Heinlein
I John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
--William Wordsworth
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
-- Robert Heinlein
I John 3:18
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
--William Wordsworth
Man Jen, now YOUR posts are making me cry. I needed this one today. :)
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