I don't want to forget......

I don’t want my children to forget…. I don’t want them to ever stop living in the legacy of Faith as they grow so that one day when the Lord calls them to Himself they can continue to pass on the only Hope that does not disappoint.

Romans 5:5

      and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

I want them to see Him in the little things: in the way he makes their tummies feel better after a night of sickness, in the way that He gives them friends to have a day of fun and fellowship with.

Colossians 1:17

            He is before all things, and in Him all things hold    together.

I want them to see Him in the big things: in the way that He wrote and is writing the story of their little sister, in the way that He transforms lives and families and hearts. I want them to know the Living God, the one that is in the details of our lives, the one that I trust my next step and next breath too. How will they know if I don’t tell them?

Romans 11:36

      For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things. To him be the glory Forever! Amen

Today, I had the gift to go to Bible study this morning and sit around a table with some sweet sisters, whom I have grown to love and adore through the years. We were studying on Gideon and how at the beginning of his story he was a fearful man, timid and unaware of the great calling on his life by the Lord. But he does end up listening and obeying and following God and he is victorious in battles and his whole demeanor changes. However…. As the story goes on….he forgets. He forgets who has given Him this great calling and who should receive all of the glory and soon other things creep into his life that demand his heart and those other things, don’t deserve it and don’t have a place but when we forget God and his goodness and his truths that will be the result.  (Judges 8 )

As we sat at the table, we discussed the importance of the small things and finding Him in the day to day and in the good so that when the trials and storms come, our relationship with the mighty God who is in all things and above all things is Firm and steadfast. If we live under His mighty wings when the Sun is shining and feel His goodness and protection, then when the rain comes (& it will), we will know nothing else than our safe home.

Psalm 91:4

He will comver you with His feather and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart

I want my prince charmings to know His faithfulness in the good times and even the hard times.

I was at the mall recently doing a bit of birthday shopping for my sweet sister and a very glittery journal  was spotted by my glitter adoring eyes at J.crew. My sweet hubby quickly said, why don’t you “forget” about it and then it can happen to be in your stocking for Christmas. Well, that didn’t happen and it made it home with me… it is sooo pretty. I have yet to write in it… until today…. But after this morning and some great brainstorming by some wonderful women….. the writing will commence…

This will be my glittery gratitude Journal…. It will be my altar in what sometimes can feel like a wilderness to remember God’s faithfulness…. And I am so excited.

Joshua 4:20- 24

And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: When your children ask their fathers in time to come saying “What are these stones? Then you shall let your children know saying Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty that you may fear the Lord your God forever!

I want my boys to see this out often and to even add to it as they begin to understand the meaning behind it. I want them to learn to look for Him in all things because He is in all things and He loves us in a way my mind will never understand, but by being full of gratitude and looking for Him, I will find Him and my prayer above all others is that my boys; my  greatest kingdom work, will find Him too.