Tonight I was able to meet with a group of dear friends.--It's a group of working moms from church and it's called Timeout. :) I always look forward to getting together with these ladies! We meet about every 6 weeks and I always appreciate our time together. Tonight we were visiting about all the things our kids have to face these days--tough situations.--A few things were mentioned and we visited for a while about how HARD it is to see our sweet little ones face these difficult challenges, such as bullying. Then one of our friends spoke up and said she tries to focus on eternity. Yes all our kids will face tough, hard things such as bullying that make us as moms want to pull out our big guns and get those MEAN kids--while we shelter our own children. But...she pointed out, these things are TEMPORARY. She instead focuses on anything and everything she can do to make sure she can help lead her son to Christ. I love this and want to focus more on this now...keeping my eyes on God and on eternity. Here on this earth we want to do EVERYthing we can to protect our precious children.--What mom doesn't want to do this? But more importantly I am now going to try to focus on doing everything I can to make sure I get to spend ETERNITY with all my girls. This was so enlightening to me. It makes so much sense to me though because either earlier today or yesterday (I'm losing track of time) I was thinking 'I can at least check 1 out of 3 of my sweet girls off the list...I KNOW I will see Avelyn in heaven.' THIS GIVES ME SO MUCH PEACE!!! Brooklan has also been saved, but I want to continue to help her on this journey...and I also want to continue to help Ailiana, as well. 'Dear God, by your grace, please help me to do this!'
Thank you dear friend for sharing this tonight! I hope I can keep my eyes on the big prize of someday meeting my Lord and Savior in heaven having ALL of my girls there with me!!! By His grace I have been saved and by His grace I pray our big girls continue to learn more about Him and experience salvation, as well. I pray and encourage you all to do the same, if you haven't already...and that way I can see YOU too!!! ;)
PRAY FOR SALVATION...FOCUS ON ETERNITY...THIS LIFE IS TEMPORARY...
I just thought of this. All this reminds me of a saying a dear friend shared with me a couple weeks ago. She has also lost a young child. Let me find it...
Ok...here it is:
“They say that time in heaven is compared to “the blink of an eye” for us on this earth. Sometimes it helps me to think of my child running ahead of me through a beautiful field of wildflowers and butterflies; so happy and completely caught up in what he is doing that when he looks behind him, I’ll already be there.”
Because this life is temporary, "LIKE THE BLINK OF AN EYE" compared to eternity, I need to focus on SALVATION for ALL those I love...so I can spend ETERNITY with them.
Thank you dear friend for sharing this tonight! I hope I can keep my eyes on the big prize of someday meeting my Lord and Savior in heaven having ALL of my girls there with me!!! By His grace I have been saved and by His grace I pray our big girls continue to learn more about Him and experience salvation, as well. I pray and encourage you all to do the same, if you haven't already...and that way I can see YOU too!!! ;)
PRAY FOR SALVATION...FOCUS ON ETERNITY...THIS LIFE IS TEMPORARY...
I just thought of this. All this reminds me of a saying a dear friend shared with me a couple weeks ago. She has also lost a young child. Let me find it...
Ok...here it is:
“They say that time in heaven is compared to “the blink of an eye” for us on this earth. Sometimes it helps me to think of my child running ahead of me through a beautiful field of wildflowers and butterflies; so happy and completely caught up in what he is doing that when he looks behind him, I’ll already be there.”
Because this life is temporary, "LIKE THE BLINK OF AN EYE" compared to eternity, I need to focus on SALVATION for ALL those I love...so I can spend ETERNITY with them.
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