Juicy Lil Nuggets

If you are like me you know how much of a struggle it is to get to church every week. Every Sunday we all could have a million reasons, legitimate reasons, to not go. Lets face it…It is hard to get out the door. It is hard to get everyone ready. And honestly, I’m not a morning person, and most of the time(sadly) I just don’t feel like it. However, No matter what the fight, even if the kids cry the whole way in the car (like they didn't last week), I have never once regretted going. I have never wished I had not decided to go hear the worship, be in the presence of God, with other believers surrounding me, to hear a word from the Lord ,audible through the voice of our pastor.

God speaks to me through the message and through our pastor, and when you get a juicy lil nugget from God it is just like WOW, I don’t know how else to describe it. “Light bulb , ah-ha, that was for me moment.” God is so good! I of course, even during the message was talking to myself like, “ mmmmhmmm..and you weren’t going to come, can you believed you would have missed that.” In this one message there was all sorts of nuggets, even ones that pertained to parenting. Can you believe it? Especially because this message was not about parenting. Sometimes I just want a cut and dry answer. I want 100% what does God say, and what is his will, and how do I put that into practice. And I feel like I got that. I mean that is a gift. I feel like a was on a huge game board with lots of arrows and I had to pick one, but the decision seemed a little shady, not well defined. It wasn’t that I didn’t know the right answer, I just did know how much I needed to HEAR the right one.

God, Help me to parent with grace. Not to be legalistic, not to EVER make it about a list of rules as Christians, but to teach the freedom with have in Christ. I don’t want my kids to grow up feeling condemned when they makes mistakes. And I never want them to use grace as a free-pass to sin. Because sin has consequences.  I realized making list of rules for your kids is easy , but teaching grace will take God’s wisdom.

I can’t believe the number of times in the last month things have falling slap into my lap, like for whatever reason, it was part of the plan and God was going to make me see it, accept it, and use it for a purpose I’m not quit sure of yet. Some things are hard right now, I feel like I’m failing, and yet I feel protected, like he is doing things I can’t and that as ALWAYS every need, and every worry will be taken care of.

I don’t know what the point of this post was exactly, or what I’m even trying to say, but there you have it, all little piece of my heart, and another reminder that God is always working. Satan is too. Trying to keep us from doing what we should do, going where we should go, to keep us trapped in feel and doubt. I pray against that in our lives. That we would have boldness and overcome evil with good.

Blessings friends!