Thoughts of the Heart

Wonder why it is that as we get older we lose sight sometimes of WHO God is and WHO we are in Christ?  I remember when I was home raising our daughters and my husband was at work, I felt like I had purpose, I had a goal, a reason for getting up in the morning and spending time with Christ before the girls were up, exercising, making breakfast but as I have gotten older and the girls are grown and raising their own families I feel adrift a little detached.  I know it is not what God would have or want of His "Older Children" but I fear I have fallen into that "Old Person" trap of feeling not that important.  As I think on this and as I write it is helping me to come to grips with the reality that I AM getting older and I can feel useless or I can BE OF USE.  As I look back on my life as a mom of two very beautiful girls I feel so very blessed, so very blessed that I was able to be at home and to have valuable input into their everyday lives, from praying with them a

So I started this in March but just couldn't write.  I have some competition because both of my daughters write and they do such an awesome job of sharing their feelings and I'm not so sure I can follow in their footsteps.  There is nothing like a "Mother's Love" no matter how old your children are they are STILL your children and when they hurt you hurt, when they are happy you are happy.  Our world was shakened and turned UPSIDE down this last March.  How could something so selfless on Tiffany's part end up starting a chain of events that NOT one of us could of ever imagined or predicted, but OUR God knew and He had been preparing us.  Mike had been teaching a sunday school class on the Soverienty of God and had just taught the class when that Monday Tiffany delivered two very healthy twins and then EVERYTHING started falling apart and we almost lost her at that point, but again God is in control and it WAS NOT her time but we didn't know that yet, all w