Why do I feel the need to add one more thing to my already busy life? As a wife, a homeschool mom, chief house cleaner, top dish washer, chef extraordinaire, friend, active church member, (and the list goes on) ... I think I have enough to do without entering the blogging world. You see, this blog is not for anyone else, really. Just for me ... just a place to enter my thoughts, feelings, frustrations, joys, goals, triumphs, and disappointments. If you happen to stop by and enter into my world, so be it. I need a place to reflect, to be able to look back and see that I have accomplished things with my girls - in school and in my home life.
When I saw the picture of the dandelions on the background page here, it made me stop and think of how my life is much like those dandelions. You see, our yard - at times- looks like a meadow full of dandelions. The little yellow flowers show up in the early morning but by the hottest part of the day have shriveled up to almost nothing. When the "fluff" comes on, just one puff of wind can blow them apart and the seeds scatter - and we never know where they all will land. I know that life as I know it right now can change as quickly as those dandelions do ... what seems like a hard thing now is just a season. My children will not be the ages they are forever and the difficulties I experience with them today will not last forever. They will change. I only have my "little girls" for so long. I must do my best to raise them the way God wants me to, for I may never see where the little seeds I plant into their lives will land and grow. Will they blossom into good things or will they just become "weeds"?? Oh, that I may take the time to teach their hearts. To spend time with them while they are here and not be distracted by other things.
Help me, Lord, to grow closer to You so that I can teach my girls to love you with their hearts, souls, and lives. May I plant the seeds of beautiful, long lasting fruit in the soil of my girls' hearts so that they will not grow up to be dandelions - here today, but gone tomorrow, scattered and blown about by the wind.
I do not know how often I'll post here ... maybe just as the desire to share strikes my heart. I don't want this to become another "have to" on my "To Do" list. So, I won't let it. I'll come as often as I need to or want to. Maybe someone, somewhere will happen upon this and will be helped, too.
