Mom Heart Moments #227

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you —you of little faith?

WOMEN CAN BE SO UPTIGHT and prone to worry, can’t we? I wish I had just learned at a much earlier age to chill more, to dance more, to stop and smell more roses. Each of us has been given a different puzzle —different circumstances, gifts, personalities, families, children, husbands (or lack thereof). I wish I had not been such a people pleaser, trying to live up to the expectations of others —my family, my critics, my peers. My family puzzle just did not fit into the pattern of others’ expectations, so trying to live up to those standards was impossible. I wish I had accepted that at the very first instead of fretting about things I could not change.

Some of the cards we have been dealt are pleasing, and some just drive us crazy. But I think the reason we often struggle with His will is because we find ourselves and our circumstances unacceptable, embarrassing, and/or less than perfect.

We can’t truly find peace until we relinquish a tight grasp on our rights and learn to rest in the places in which we find ourselves.

To have peace and rest, we must die to ourselves, our failures, and our expectations and hold our hands up to our Father just as a toddler would and say, “I need You. I need Your love, grace, joy, peace today. Without You, I am not able to experience rest in my heart. Help me to see Your presence in this place, this time, these circumstances, within my own limitations. Open my eyes to beauty, to Your fingerprints all around me today.”

Hold your arms up to Him, even now. Know He bends low to pick you up and He will never leave you alone.