Ouch! I love LOVE love my family, but I write this post with my tail between my legs. How many times am I the clanging cymbal?!
“Dirty clothes in the basket. Shoes in your closet. Feed the geckos….clang. Clang. Clang. Why do you always have to leave your shoes out?!”
I so badly want to be a loving wife and mother but I so often, so very often, fall so very short! I need Jesus!
Love is patient. Errr. I am not a patient person. It doesn’t take much for me to get irritated.
It is not self seeking. “Can I just have 5 minutes to myself?!” Head down, ears back, tail tucked as I think about how self seeking I am.
Love keeps no record of wrongs. “You always…” How often do I pull that list out on my husband?!
It is not easily angered. OK! I give up!
AND YES! That is where I need to be! I can not be a patient Mommy without Jesus! I can not be a wife that does not keep a record of wrongs without Jesus!
And that is what matters to me! To be the wife and mother that Christ calls me to be, to daily show my family how much I love them by letting Jesus be perfect love through me. Because I can’t! I fall so short of the
1 Corinthians 13 love!
Love is more than a feeling! Love is action. Love is changing for someone, love is choosing their needs above your own, love is being patient with my daughter in the morning before I’ve had coffee, love is staying in budget for my husband instead of demanding what I want, love is surrendering to Jesus because He is perfect love!
And these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
LOVE NEVER FAILS!
I Corinthians 13
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