Mom Heart Moments #326

Love covers a multitude of sins.

IN MARRIAGE, comparing oneself to others or wishing for a different reality is a waste of time. It only brings discontent and depression. I can either bring light, life, beauty, and redemption into this situation and to this husband, or I can live in disappointment and destroy hope, happiness, and joy. In a fallen world, there will always be stress and sin, but I do not have to let this determine my happiness or contentment.

The reality is that all marriages are filled with potential challenges and difficulty. I believe one of the glories of women is the opportunity to spread the gracious spirit of love and peace as a fragrance and evidence of life in her home.

It is all dependent on the way a woman sees her lot in life —as an opportunity to worship and bring light, or a place for complaining and discontent. A critical spirit wreaks havoc on children when they live with it on a constant basis.

All children long to see their moms and dads love each other and be partners in life. As Clay and I have cultivated this kind of grace-giving love, it has bloomed in the hearts of our children. They know we are not perfect, but they believe in the strong love that is the oxygen of commitment in our home.

But the foundations of strength and longevity start with a commitment in my heart. When I accept our limitations and lean into our story with grace and love, it becomes a love story worth telling generations to come. God joins our meager commitment and sprinkles His grace and goodness over it, working a miracle that our children will cherish their whole lives.

Are you willing to accept your story, your husband, your children? Will you cultivate His story through your lives today, just as you are?