1 Timothy 6:12 “Fight the good fight of faith.”
When we find out we are going to become a mom, we try to do everything right to make sure we give this baby the best life possible. Once our child is born, we soon learn this child has changed our lives. We no longer think of ourselves first, but that child takes center stage. We will give up our lives for that child. If we saw that our child was in danger, we would lay our life on the line to save that child. We would die for them.
Now that our child is gone, we need to ask ourselves, “Can I live for them?” This week I am asking you that question. Can you live on for your child? Not just existing, but making a decision to live a life that would make them proud of you.
Daisy asked us this question at one of the conferences, “If your child was here and we were to ask them what they would want for you as their mom, they would each answer, ‘I would want my mom to be happy.’”
I know when we are in deep grief, it is hard to find anything to be happy about. I challenge you this week to start to find something to be happy about, something to smile about. We need to carry on for our children so we can leave them and us a legacy that would make them proud of whom we are.
“Make me thy laborer.
Let me not dream of ever looking back.
Let not my knees be feeble, hands be slack.
O make me strong to labor, strong to bear,
from the rising of the morning till the stars appear.”
– from Streams in the Desert
Michele
