"If I try to keep my house clean and in perfect order, but do not show love to my family -
it is all for nothing.
If I create the most beautiful drapes and pillows, delicious meals, always look attractive, but am not loving to my family -
I am nothing.
If I'm busy teaching Sunday school, playing for choir, teaching piano, meeting with friends, going to Bible study, but fail to give enough love to my family -
I gain nothing.
Love is patient... changes diapers, cleans up after meals, does laundry, comforts the sick - over and over and over again.
Love is kind, even though I'm tired and 8 months pregnant!
Love doesn't wish I was another woman -
who has no kids so she can go shopping or go on a night out whenever she feels like it.
Love doesn't try to impress others with my son's achievements... or my own.
Love doesn't scream back at my son.
Love doesn't feel sorry for myself because I didn't get to do what I wanted to do today - read, take a long shower, nap.
Love doesn't react in anger quickly.
Love doesn't remind my husband that he's forgotten to take the trash out... again.
Love doesn't rejoice when another woman's children are going crazy on a plane and mine is not.
Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 comments:
Amber--This is just said so beautifully! You have put it into words and brought it down where the rubber meets the road. You are a beautiful person, mother, daughter and above all else "a beautiful granddaughter" (inside as well as outside). I love you dearly and am so proud of you! Grandma Rus.
I really, really like this, Amber. Also, I cannot BELIEVE you are already 8 months pregnant! What's your official due date?
Thanks for your kind words, Grandma! I love you.
March 31 is the official due date, Angel! It's coming quickly. :)
Amber:
Thank you so much for sharing that. As a mom and wife, I struggle with this daily. There are times when I literally have to talk myself into getting up to do the dishes or laundry, but I remember I am doing it for the Lord. I have never seen it put this way before...it was exactly what I needed.
This was great Amber and i don't even have a baby. I can't believe you are going to have 2 kids before I even have 1.
I struggled with the same things when you two were little and it was hard to keep the right perspective. Now that I can look back at those years----they were some of the most rewarding and your children will be molded by your love. I'm so proud of you, Amber.
Love, mom
Amber,
Your I Corinthians 13 is beautiful and boy, can I relate exactly to several of the lines! :) Thanks for sharing it.
(It's been awhile since I checked your blog, but I'm trying to be a bit more "with it" in the blogging world, so I'll check again soon! I'm still resisting Facebook though!)
Carolyn
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