Cling to the Cross

While we were on vacation in Colorado, I had the opportunity to read "Loving the Little Years" by Rachel Jankovic. My dear friend and Pastor's wife had given me a copy of this before we left, and I was so grateful she did. I will probably post a few quotes from it in future blogs.

Anyway, yesterday while I was browsing through old blog updates I had missed, I found this one by Rachel and it was such a blessing to my heart. It's entitled Motherhood Is a Calling (And Where Your Children Rank). In case you don't have time to read all of it, here is a paragraph that encouraged my heart last night and again this morning.

Live the gospel in the things that no one sees. Sacrifice for your children in places that only they will know about. Put their value ahead of yours. Grow them up in the clean air of gospel living. Your testimony to the gospel in the little details of your life is more valuable to them than you can imagine. If you tell them the gospel, but live to yourself, they will never believe it. Give your life for theirs every day, joyfully. Lay down pettiness. Lay down fussiness. Lay down resentment about the dishes, about the laundry, about how no one knows how hard you work.

Stop clinging to yourself and cling to the cross. There is more joy and more life and more laughter on the other side of death than you can possibly carry alone.