Sometimes God Can Use Your Children To Give You A Word Of Encouragement. Be Prepared To Do A Little Work For It Though.

Today was one of those days. It really was a great day but I just seemed to need a word of encouragement from the Lord later this afternoon. I think it was just before dinner when my son sat down and I asked of him to seek the Lord for a word of encouragement for me. I reminded him of all the times I have encouraged him and I just seemed to need a word today. He made me do a little bit of searching for this word. You have to love that in your children don't you? When you want an easy word they seem to be following the lead of Holy Spirit and cause you to think about something. It was good for you see, the question he asked of me caused me to give him a few different answers then what he was looking for. I was then able to share with him about what I just wrote about today, a delayed harvest. His final words to me on the subject were that I really got a word of encouragement through myself today. Such wisdom in a young man. I love that. Keep encouraging your children and prompting them to step out in their natural gifts/talents for if you do that you just never know when your child will come to you in your time of need and bless you.
Do you want to know what the word was he had me search for? It all stemmed from a simple question he asked me. What gift do I have in me already for success? Or something like that I did not write it down when he asked it of me. I answered, smile, integrity, honesty. He prodded me some more until he had me agree it was Faith. He reminded me that I have great faith and why would I give up now when I have such faith. To continue to hold onto faith. I then shared with him what I wrote about earlier today about not giving up on delayed harvest for the delayed harvest will truly be much more beneficial than the quick harvest. Such wisdom in such a young man, he said I had my own word of encouragement all along.
Children are the best. I am so thankful to have children and to be a mother. Train up your children well and then you can sit back and see the wonders that God does in their lives right before your very eyes. They will still go and experiment with things in their lives that is when your trust in God as a parent has to kick in. Never apologize for keeping standards and morals in your home. For what you expose your children to today will be what they will fall back upon in their tomorrow which ends up being their future. Keep them safe and secure and remind them often of the love you have for them. The hardest part of being a parent is when they stumble and fall and you cannot just fix it with a bandage and a kiss on their knee and tell them it will be all better. I am sure if I polled parents tonight they would concur that they all stumbled and fell sometime in their young years too. Just love them and continue to nurture them with correction when needed, love, and fun too. Joy really comes to the heart of a parent that sees their children doing what they are called to do with their lives.
When children grow older we are there to suggest and then the final decision is truly in their hands. Some decisions are good and very good while there may be a bump and bruise mixed in there sometime between the good and very good. Be there to love them and you will just be at peace knowing that you did your part in raising these true gifts from God. Let me remind you what I wrote earlier this week about gifts:
Gods
Invitation
For
Trust
A gift is given and sometimes you have no control of what you will find when you open the gift. If the gift is given in love then you know for sure that you can trust that the gift is going to be something good for you and not harm you.

My heart is so filled with love this evening because I am truly blessed, blessed and honored to be a parent. Thank you Lord for I do not take this for granted. I can truly say that of all the gifts I have ever received in my life the finest gifts of all are the two gifts given to me, that being my children. Such a blessing, such a blessing.