The hard things


We are back in school and so far we are surviving.  It was a harder adjustment for some more then others.  My sweet girl did not like being away from her momma ALL day and there were lots of tears. But this week she seems to have turned a corner and is talking about friends and teachers and all the fun she is having.  Phew...  It was so hard to send her to school knowing she would cry when she got there.  All I wanted to do was keep her home.  How many other momma hearts were hurting these first few weeks of school?  The hard things we must do as a parent.  


I'll be the first to admit, loudly and bodly.  I DO NOT LIKE HARD THINGS.  At all!  I don't like working hard.  I don't like being in hard places.  I like things EASY!  call me a wimp, lazy, whatever. I like it easy.  But the thing is, I know hard things are good for us.  I know sending my girl to school when she doesn't want to go is sometimes good for her.  I know she needs to learn, to become more independent, to speak up for herself.  But sometimes I just want to do it all for her so she doesn't experience the hard.  I want to protect her.  I want to protect me.  But I know that is not what is best.

God knows too.  I think that is why he allows us to persevere through the hard.  Because through the hard, we grow up, we grow out, we grow into who Christ calls us to be.  Through the hard, we learn to trust, we learn to lean into, we learn...  We simply learn.



Through the hard, I have learned,
                * That God prepares me, sustains me and helps me endure.  And I can do hard things.  By the grace of God, I make it through the hard things.  And sometimes, it's even good.
                * That there is always beauty on the other side of hard things.   Always.  Because Grace.  And dancing in the morning.
                 * That God loves me.  Always, Enduringly, Perfectly.  Just because it's hard doesn't mean God doesn't love me.  Just because Hannah had to go to school and do hard things and be away from momma and tell her teacher how sad she was, - Never meant at all that I did not love her.  In fact, I loved her more because she was enduring the hard stuff.  God's love is not limited to our struggle with the hard stuff.  In fact..  I believe.  God's love is made stronger and more perfect as we trust him through the hard things.


I don't know what hard things you all are enduring these days.  A lack of sleep, a cranky child, hard decisions.... or/and much much more.  Know that there is beauty coming and that you can endure and  trust, always trust,  that God is Loving you in the midst of it.

There's my back to school lesson for this year.  Maybe next year it'll be about easy things!

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