Encouragement

Hey Moms:

It's Saturday evening and I just returned home from a fabulous two days at our Ladies Conference. I just thought I'd take a quick moment to encourage you all.

I was thrilled when I had looked on my calendar and saw that Bill would be off from work during this weekend. So I signed up to attend. I just knew that I was supposed to be there. Sometimes we get caught up in surviving every day being a mother, a wife, a teacher, a friend, a daughter and many other things, that we neglect the very person that we should be clinging onto for dear life. OK...if this is not you, then I guess I'm alone in all of this. But I'll be transparent enough to share that, that's where I've been. I have been longing for the intimacy of my first love. God has been reminding me of that time in my life when He was all I had and all that I wanted. I knew I yearned to be back at that place. Although my life has changed I know that He hasn't changed. One of my favorite Psalms is Psalm 63 when it says, "O God you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water..." That's where I've been. In the desert where there was no water...but this weekend I have drank from the living well!!

Ladies, if you're anything like me, I know that you know all of this. Yet, we still choose to go through life at times trying to do it on our own strength. Well He doesn't want us to!!! As our guest speaker, Catherine Hickman, said "God doesn't want for us to say here take my life...instead He wants to give US His life!!!" This weekend, God met me right where I needed him to meet me. I wept like a baby as I basked in his presence this weekend. (It felt awesome!)

Be encouraged that you are not alone.