I am working on a post about the kids' first day of school today and the surprising POWER it had over my entire day (!!!), but I don't have the photos uploaded, so I wanted to share with you something that has been on my chest lately.
Nathan and I FINALLY watched a movie a few weeks ago that my Mom gave us for Christmas. It is the movie that Ruth Bell Graham's children made about her after she passed away. It is a moving tribute to a woman who was devoted to her God, her husband and her family, in that order.
It really got my mind going and I have been thinking about it, in any available quiet moment, ever since. All of her children, all of her friends had SUCH great things to say about her. She was noble, educated woman. She was a wonderful wife who, honestly, took care of her entire family as a (physically) single mom most of the time because her husband, Billy Graham, was evangelizing all over the world. She supported her husband and his calling 100% and without waivering. It was a great testimony to her life, this movie.
So, I started thinking about what my kids would say about me. How would my friends speak about me if I passed from this earth to my home?
Although I am sure that nice things would be said, if any one's first thought of my character is anything BUT "She lived her LIFE as a Christ follower that loved her Lord with all of her heart.", I will have failed. I want to be remembered as a good wife. I want my kids, my girls, to see that in me. I want to be remembered as a good Mother. More than ANY of these things though, I want people to know that I am a child of God and that my life, my heart, my every breath is devoted to Him. For it is in THAT kind of character that all the other traits are hidden.
I want my first and last thoughts to be of Jesus each day. I want my first and last words to my children to be about Jesus. I want people to see me driving down the road or walking through the grocery store and to KNOW that I love my Lord and am His faithful servant. I want to be FILLED with Christ.
I want to be emptied of me and completed in Him alone.
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What a beautiful post:) I have been following your blog and love reading about your family and walk with our Lord. Please feel free to stop by my families blog sometime. I enjoyed this post very much as I myself feel the same way. Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed day in Him.
Your words are beautiful, Ang. I know that you're still alive, but I can honestly say that you must be filled with Christ because you are a fabulous mom, an apparently fabulous wife, a servant in our church and community, and such a beautiful person. So I know that already in your death people will know that you were and are the Lord's.
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