Motherhood And Life

If you have been reading my blog then you will know that I have been having a really hard time lately. My mom gave me this book "I Am A Mother" by: Jane Clayson Johnson. It is one of the best books that I have ever read. And it has helped me a lot. Here are some things that I loved from the book.

Motherhood


"I'd rather be a mother than anyone on earth
Bringing up a child or two of unpretentious birth...
I'd rather tuck a little child all safe and sound in bed
Than twine a chain of diamonds about my carefree head
I'd rather was a smudgy face with round, bright, baby eyes
Than paint the pageantry of fame or walk among the wise."
-Meridith Gray

 "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tomorrow,
For babies grow up, I've learned, to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby, and babies don't keep."
-Author Unknown


"Don't ever say 'I am just a mother', for mothers heal the souls of men."
-Sheri Dew


Life

"You need not sing all the verses of your song at the same time."
-President James E. Faust

"You can't possibly do this alone, but you do have help. The master of Heaven and Earth is there to bless you... Rely on him. Rely on him heavily. Rely on him forever."
-Jeffery R. Holland

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is he up to? The explanation is that he is building quite a different house than the one you thought of- throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making court yards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but he is building a palace."
-C.S. Lewis

I love that! Absolutely love that! Because it is so true. I would be happy with being just a little cottage. I really would be satisfied with that, but the Lord wants to make us into a palace. To make us into the best we can be. I need to remember that when things get hard and tough and I want to quit that I don't want to be a cottage I want to be a palace!

Don't Quit
"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit...
Success is failure turned inside out.
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt
And you never can tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems far
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit."
-Author Unknown

God only gives us what we can handle, nothing more and nothing less.