- Beauty in the Mess, Birthdays, Ezra, Family, Messy Faith, Miscellaneous, Recovering Perfectionist, The Preschool Years
Beauty in the Mess ~ Edition 10.02.13 {AKA what life has been like for the last two months}
Finding God's beauty in spite of our messy, everyday life. A lengthly post of pictures and updates from August and September 2013.
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Ezra’s Little Blue Truck 3rd Birthday Party
Pictures from Ezra's Little Blue Truck third birthday party: a cake and a playset!
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Realizing you can’t do it all (on reprioritizing, restrategizing, and taking scissors to my schedule)
I've been trying to do way too much. So I took scissors to my schedule and started cutting.
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in case you think you are the only mom whose 3-year-old is NOT in preschool
I was starting to wonder if I missed the "Yes, all three-year-olds go to preschool" memo. But it's where God has us, and it's okay.
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the pendulum effect and sinning “that grace may abound”
But TRUE grace-filled living is not about doing whatever you want without care and crying "there's grace for that!" when you know what you are doing is wrong.
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My motivation: “chosen, holy, and dearly loved”
The difference between grace-filled me and former legalistic-me has very very little to do with what I do or don't do, what I abstain from and what I participate in. But it has…
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Letting him be lonely
I hope that someday, he will forgive me for all the times I said, "No, not now, Mommy is working..." and "Ezra, go play" and "Leave Mommy alone"
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The real me
When I really grasped it, that big weight that I had been carrying around (guilt, shame, expectations, fears) just slipped off my back.
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when you and your husband are in different spiritual places
For those times when you are out-of-sync spiritually with your spouse.
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What motherhood taught me about legalistic Christianity
Being the perfect mom became my new legalism.