We all have to have firsts, right? Well, here's to my first blog of thoughts. My other blog is a photo blog and that's easy. Just shoot and post. This one, well, it's a little more tricky. I have been thinking about doing a blog now for quite a few years. I also had someone joke with me once about writing a book about raising twins. That stuck with me…the power of our words, folks, is incredible! Then for the last 2 days, after I'd spent sometime in prayer, I get 2 nudges of doing a blog, so here I sit, in my kitchen, and I've just created my life musings of being the mother of twin girls. God in His infinite wisdom knows WAY more than I do and I figure I'm writing this for my own benefit. After all, who the heck really cares? I'm certainly not the first mom of twins to ever write a blog. And I'm not completely hilarious or a wordsmith that will suck you in on the first sentence. I AM, however, completely and brutally honest! LOL!!
My husband & I have been married for 21 years and we have twin 13 year old daughters. We just entered teen-dom! WHEW! I am a somewhat strict mom and so they know what to expect from me (and my husband). There are days when I love my job and there are days when I'm ready to turn in my termination notice and my hubby always tells me that I'm not allowed to quit! Seriously? Sheesh!! Whatever!!
Right now life is teaching us how to love the unloveable. There are kids at school who are truly hard to love and we as Christians are called to love them. That means we need to pray for our own heart and our own eyes. Mark 12:30-31 ESV says "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: "You shall love the your neighbor as yourself." There is no other commandment greater than these." Teaching them to try to see their peers through God's eyes is both challenging and rewarding. When we truly surrender our heart to God's will and wanting (and needing) to see others as God's creations, we learn to have compassion towards others….heck, we learn to have compassion towards everyone! That's exciting stuff!!
I trust that the Lord has a plan in all of this and I trust in Him to get us through the rough spots. We also praise Him when things are going well. And so goes the start of my journey of blogging….
