Practicing Joy: seems fitting

Thursday, April 11, 2013

seems fitting

5 comments:

chacha said...: Or fifty something!
xo; April 17, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Mom.NanaN said...: Happy birthday Leah; April 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM
leah said...: ChaCha, it all goes too fast, doesn't it?

Thanks, Mom!! Trying to stay 39 as long as I can...; April 18, 2013 at 2:17 PM
chacha said...: Happy belated!
xoxo; April 19, 2013 at 12:12 PM
leah said...: You are actually right on time. I only had a few more hours to hold on to 39, but alas, all good things must come to an end.;)

Embracing 40, snow flurries on my birthday and all!; April 19, 2013 at 1:03 PM

Practicing Joy

The routines of housework and mothering may be seen as a kind of death, and it is appropriate that they should be, for they offer the chance, day after day, to lay down one's life for others. Then they are no longer routines. By being done with love and offered up to God with praise, they are thereby hallowed as the vessels of the tabernacle were hallowed-not because they were different from other vessels in quality or function, but because they were offered to God. A mother's part in sustaining the life of her children and making it pleasant and comfortable is no triviality. It calls for self-sacrifice and humility, but it is the route, as was the humiliation of Jesus, to glory.

-Elisabeth Elliot

"Taking up our cross daily means to form the habit of going through our day...with a passion to give up our right to make ourselves the center of concern. Rather we live for God's kingdom, finding our place in His unfolding plan and playing our role well as we give our life away to others for Christ's sake."

-Moreland and Issler

"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me."

-Jesus, Luke 9:23

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