I can never thank God enough for this wonderful life He has given me. I can only pray I live as one truly grateful. Lord please don't let me waste a day. I offer each one to You as a living sacrifice full of love, thanks and devotion. May I and each day find favor in Your sight O Lord my God and my Redeemer. Amen

Gratitude

God You have blessed me in so many ways.

A home, a husband to share my days.

 Children surround me by the score.

For me to love and adore.

God You have blessed me in so many ways.

With people who need me, and people to raise.

You give me things to do for You more and more.

I'm so glad to serve You whom I adore.

God You have blessed me in so many ways.

You have filled my life with such wonderful days.

And when the end comes I wont ask for more.

I only want to give thanks and praise forever to You whom I adore.

Be Kind

My husband and I don't have any children of our own. But God has blessed us with many children over the years. We have watched little tikes grow up as Sunday school teachers. We have watched teens grow up as youth pastors, and we have had many wonderful children dropped off at our home over the years. Even now we are surrounded by young people on the Christian campus where we live. My husband knows many of them real well because he has driven the buses over the years. some of my neighbors have children and some don't. I am surprised to find my life as busy as theirs. Some of the moms even work out side the home! I am a stay at home wife. My husband and I wanted it that way and God has really blessed that decision and I am sure He blesses the decision of the moms who work. Sometimes I feel sad when people with children come to me and say, "As long as you aren't doing anything.", "If  you don't have anything to do.", "Will you watch my child.", "What do you do all day?".  I love children and I don't mind watching them. I just feel sad that people don't think I have anything to do; like I don't have a useful life. They start out asking my help a little and before I know it I am full time! You see even though I am very busy I have a hard time saying no. God always finds plenty for me to do from the time I get up until I lay down I have very little chance to sit. Taking care of my husband and home and doing other things that God calls me to keeps me hopping. This got me to thinking about how I treat widows, singles, grandparents, people whose children are grown and others. Do I honor and respect them and treat them as people who are important. They are important even if some of them don't have children. God still gives them and me useful things to do. Some are teachers, prayer warriors, encouragers, spirit lifters, helpers, friends, and more. We visit people, volunteer where we are needed, and more. I pray when I ask someone for help I ask in a right way. I pray that when I am around people with or with out children that I give them all equal respect, love and honor. Many a time a person has made me feel that something was wrong with me because I don't have children. God has healed that. I still love children. I see them as a gift from God and, I thank Him for the part I play in the life of each one He brings into my life. I am a happy, contented, housewife, and I love the life that God has given me.

He grants the barren woman a home, like a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord! Psalm 113:9, Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not travailed with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord. Isaiah 54:1, The older women like wise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanders, not given to much wine, teachers of good things-- that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. Titus 2:3-5, Proverbs 31:10-31 applies to all married women even the ones with no children, to grandmothers, widows, any woman who has a home. Some of it is good practice for single women in preparation for when they have a home. Women are home makers where ever they have a roof over them they can make it a home even if their roof is the sky and their home a sleeping bag.

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