"Here Maddie...You want this?"
"Oh mama, you're last bite?"
As embarrassing as it is to say now, it felt so good that she acknowledged that. My last bite, that last morsel of yummy goodness...I "sacrificed" for my baby girl because she wanted it. (pat on the back right?) But that isn't the only one...every day, every year, a sacrifice of time, patience, energy, desires, dreams, plans, etc.
On one hand, isn't that what a good mommy is "supposed" to do.
On the other hand, when can I just finish the last bite on my plate? :(
Often times I feel like the sacrifices that I have made and the things that I do for my children (as well as others, if we are being honest) go unnoticed
and I don't like it. There
are certain things that I do that noone will ever know about, and I accept that. I don't want credit for it; I do it and I don't mind if anyone ever really knows that the work or the sacrifice was mine.
But there are the others. There are always those OTHER times! Desperate for a word of acknowledgement. Or worse yet, "
Approval"
'You did a good job'
'Thank you so much'
Colossians 3:23 says: "Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as (something done) for the Lord and not for men"
Do I live this? Can I live this?
I have to!
And when I feel like I can't...there is grace! God's power to help me do that which I could not otherwise do on my own...
Unseen and un-noticed....
ReplyDeleteWhy when I love and give and do even when I am tired, exhausted giving of myself...doesn't anyone want to do the same for me...don't I deserve that....
Has no one come to the relization that it does not cost to say, "thank you or great job or hey I appreciate you"
Yes, a desperate cry for APPROVAl & ACCEPTANCE rings deep within....
than reality...I am taken back to the Cross...
Our Father sent His one and only Son Jesus Christ as a SACRIFICE for me...I was not there to see the pain my Savior endured that I might live. To look upon the face of innocence that has been beaten beyond recognition for my sake...His body broken on my behalf...For I will truly never know what it cost to see my sins upon that cross....the cost....He paid it ALL...
How many delayed moments in life have actually been the divine hand of God working on my behalf to save me from pending danger...
We give you Praise that the life we live we live in You and we know that " I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
Phil 4:13