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http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1141 http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1141 Woman are like Mary because we have the ability to give life! The tabernacle is the scared place where the Eucharist is held. Mary is the tabernacle and Jesus was Our Eucharist. Therefore, women are the tabernacle and our children are the Eucharist. The pain women endure during labor is the most miraculous thing because you endure it out of love. Woman develop a sixth sense, and we understand our children on a much deeper level. Proverbs 31:26-27 "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness." we hold the truth of wisdom. We raise our children to the best to our ability. We sacrifice, so that the future may be as bright as possible. As time goes on you may not understand what we do, but it winds up coming together in the very end. The first steps into motherhood are the most difficult steps. There is so much that is required from creating the balancing act of life to making many sacrifices. Having another life to be responsible for is stressful at times because you often wonder if you are doing the right things. The wrong things? Are you corrupting their minds? This is not an easy task to take on at all. Your main objective is to keep your child happy and in the light of God at all times. God loves children because they are pure of heart, and their love is so open! I have raised 3 children and I am currently raising another one. The 3 I have raised are brilliant children. They can read, write tie shoes, do math, and other things. Motherhood is a calling everyone answers at one point in their lives from actually birthing to becoming a nun. Motherly instincts start to slowly kick in after awhile because you are going to do what is best for your child. They say you never really experience love until your first born is placed in your hands, and this special bond between a mother and her child is so unique, and you never want to let go. .Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you." When you are around your child try and be as active in their lives as possible because you only get one opportunity to physically be there, and being there as much as possible. Children are a blessing. They will take care of you in your old age, and they keep you so youthful! You have the perfect opportunity to become everything you wanted your parents to be. I cant wait to see Cori grow up year by year into the respectable young man Daveon and I will raise him to be. The love of God will always remain in our family, and His presence will never leave.
No one knows your shoes better than yours. You know the struggles you faced everyday. Everyday was a blessing a gift from above as another chance to redeem yourself for Christ. You keep trying to stay on the right path, but often become misguided by sin. You held out on going to confess because you were embarrassed and ashamed of the entire situation. Every time we don't cleanse ourselves God becomes more and more opaque. It becomes harder to feel His presence among us even though we know He is here by our side. You are ashamed of telling anything that has happened. Life becomes a huge blur, and you become lost in the fade of society. The past eats at you everyday of your life. You've been that one person that has been abused, molested, emotionally and verbally abused, bullied, exploited, and used. The scars remain and keep it bottled inside thinking that drinking, smoking, harming yourself, and giving up yourself in a risqué way will rectify the wrong that had developed. The Lord looks down and has pity on you, and tries to raise you up, but you can not be raised if you do not wish to be raised up by Him. He knows us better than anyone in this planet. Better than our parents, friends, siblings, anyone. He knows our pain, and goes through it with us. He shares our emotions. When we are joyous He is. When we are sorrowful He is as well. He wants the best for us. Other people can claim that they understand everything that had occurred, but no one really does but you. At the end of time you do not want any problems to be the reason you did NOT enjoy life to the FULLEST! When you reflect back on life you can say I was here. I lived. I loved. I was here. I did. I've done. Its hard to let go and forgive, but who ever said it was easy. Its going to hurt when it heals to but IT WILL get BETTER IN TIME.
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