Being pursued by my Father

I have not posted a blog in such a long time. I had a great last month. I was able to go to the Camp of the Hills when the boys went to Team Focus camp, to go the following week when they were actually campers at CotH, and I spent 4 days in San Antonio with Gateway single parent families. It was a time of learning, understanding, and discovery.

I spent the evening of June 14th with God. I spent 5 hours just praying, reading and journalling. I wrote letters asking for forgiveness and focusing on freedom. Bob Hamp says that freedom is the ability to act and react to life as the person that God created you to be. I love that I am finding out exactly who I was created to be, in Christ.

I know that God created me to be a mother and that I need to have certain qualities to be a good mother. I need to be considerate, loving, patient, and most of all PRESENT. I did the 5 love languages assessment on my three youngest and found that they all had Quality Time as their first love language. Quality time is giving someone your undivided attention. That does not mean watching tv while talking to them. I need to spend individual time with them. Trey loves going to the store with me, Trent and I played cards the other night, and Trevor and I packed for camp and I took him this morning. It did not seem like anything big but he seemed to enjoy the time that we spent without the twins.

I also know that I need to be consistent in disciplining my children and in giving God time out of my day, EVERYDAY! I honestly feel better when I get into the word and receive affirmation from Him. I also need to work on a budget and stick with it. I am working on myself and I am so happy with the changes that I am seeing!