Firmly Planted

I have been under a lot of pressure lately. None of it from anyone other than myself. Just me, being me.

The kids and I have to start school in another week or so and the time crunch is getting closer…planning, making copies, rearranging schedules, etc…

I got to thinking about time and how little of it there really is in our life.

I hear so many other woman, mostly those with grown children, that say things like, enjoy these precious moments because they are fleeting. Fleeting, or rather they go to quickly. In return that means, time is fleeting or moving quickly.

I see it too some days. Like when my 12 year old son asks if he can search something on the internet, like solar panel projects, or research Nikola Tesla. Or when my almost 9 year old daughter asks me for more specifics on how babies get from the “mama’s special place” to being born (Yikes…little suitcase for that one, but that’s another post!). Or the fact that my 5 year old son can feed the dogs, wash plastic plates by himself or count to 100 with little guidance.

Which brings me back to my original thought. Time is fleeting.

Not that I don’t ever want my kids to be on their own, I do, but I sometimes feel that the time I have with them is so fleeting, simply moving too quickly. I just want more time! There are so many things that I need to tell them, teach them, help them understand before they get out there in that big, wide open world.

So, instead of flipping out and squeezing them too tightly in fear, I am making more time for the important things.

Like making sure, well, even more sure, that my kids are Firmly Planted in the important things.

Like, how they are a child of God, that He loves them unconditionally, that He loved them so much that He gave His life for them, that no matter the moment in their lives they might feel unworthy, He will always be there to help, love and support them.

For God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son, the whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous run into it and are safe. Proverbs 18: 10

Like the fact that just because someone says something horrible to them, or about them, that those words Do Not Define them. That they can overcome those words or hurt feelings because they can fall back on the word of the Lord. They can pull from the deep well of good words that they have learned over the years from the Bible.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me. Psalm 25:2

Like good words about how to be a good husband/wife.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and He is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it; Ephesians 5:22-25

Like teaching them that no one is perfect and that they are enough.

And He said unto me, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9

Time may be fleeting but I know that as I dig deeper in the word, that the Lord will see fit to show me the words I need to use, the actions I need to do, the ways of my path will be lighted with His words and in turn I will be able to show my kids that being firmly planted is the way to go.

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on His law day and night. That person is like a tree [firmly] planted by streams of water, which yield its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither – whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:1-3 NIV

I pray that they are firmly planted  and that they will reach for the heavens with out stretched arms. And that the Lord blesses them because of it.

Don’t waste what precious time we are given. Now is the time to pour in the good stuff…really and truly. We even have a promise from God in regards to that.

Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Hold fast to the time, however fleeting it seems. These moments surely do not last forever.

Many blessings to you,

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