It's very important to me to be a kind, loving, encouraging, mother and mother-in-law! Having no training in this new phase of life, we're flying by the seat of our pants!
Being a pastor's wife, shopping at Wal-mart, and just experiencing plain ole life you see a lot of what you want and don't want to do. So I made mental notes of "deal with sin, ignore preference" and I have a note on my dresser from one of Jeff's sermons that says, "We should encourage people to be more like Christ, not to be like us".
So what do I do?
Upon a visit to my adult, happily married daughter's new home, I find myself shocked that she doesn't use the same dish soap that we have always used! That's where my heart goes! I know, it's embarrassing! But I've put a lot of thought in to my dish soap! I want the suds to last and not leave a film on dishes, blah, blah, blah. So why would I even care what someone else uses? Wouldn't I be grateful that I have a daughter smart enough to buy her own dish soap? Wouldn't I count the abundant blessings in seeing her build her home in such a Christ honoring way? Nope, I concern myself about dish soap. I am so pathetic!
So when I came across this book, I just knew I had to read it and it was wonderful! Not only giving me insight in my own life, but also in the ministry.
So now, I'm a bit wiser, in the dish soap arena anyway. I even went and bought every new dish soap available just to break the idol of my previous one! (Though I did go back to my old tried and true favorite dish soap, it no longer bothers me which soap other people use! Freedom!) (Probably more of a control issue which I have some good books on that too for another post! ) God help me! God help my kids! May I love them unconditionally, rebuke sin if needed, and never ever be concerned about dish soap again!
Galations 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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