I want to create a new normal for my family, day by day. I invite you to join me…in leaving the past behind and building up what is ahead…
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Thank you. This actually made me cry when I 1st saw it this morning. I have so many fears about becoming a parent, and especially repeating all the horrible things my parents did to me. I know in my heart that I can break the pattern, and be a good mom. Thank you for reminding me.
Christy, we all have those fears…and I think we would all be doomed to fail if not for the work God does to transform our lives. We can do nothing in our own strength…so, lean heavy upon the grace and mercy of Christ.
This is one of my constant struggles. I don’t want to sound like a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, and yet so often I do. A “a legacy of joy” – I love how you phrased that… that gives me a near-tangible image, a goal, one that I can only achieve through Christ. Walking with you day by day in this, friend.
Amen, friend! Only through Christ…thankful for you in my life!
I read this over a few times and decided that I need to hang it on my wall. Can I stare at your sweet baby everyday
. Seriously, I do need this constant reminder BEFORE I choose the pattern of sin. It has really been weighing on my heart lately. Far too often, I just want to throw my hands in the air and proclaim that I can’t do it. And I can’t! A legacy of Christ joy I seek to leave, but only through Him who strengthens me.
Thank you again, Ruth. You’ve really been on a roll lately. I thank God for you in my life!
This is beautiful, Daughter, my very beloved!
Yes, it is truly breaking the pattern of sin, and replacing it with the legacy of Joy from our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, through the mercy and grace of the Holy Spirit.
Remember more than 10 years ago, I used to so painfully confess to you that though I tried very hard to be a so-called “good” mother while raising you and your brother, I failed (in a way).
I also remember that I then confirmed to you, what made me really thankful was that by God’s grace I started to cry out to Him and repented deeply at the beginning of my 50′s, and I told you I was so thankful that you could learn from your mom’s mistakes at a much younger age and that you could become a kind of mother that I always wished to be, yet not overcome with my sin.
Yes, it is the pattern of sin, and it is also the chain of curse from the Evil One. We have to in Jesus’ name break the pattern and cut off the curse of chain!
Just as God says in Exodus 20:5,6, “…..for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to those who love me and keep my commandments.”
It has been more than 10 years since I told you these, I am now still learning , and I am still making room for my Lord Jesus Christ to heal, to change, and to strengthen my used-to-be-badly-wounded heart in a daily base.
I am so very thrilled that you have been becoming a godly young woman that Mama have always wanted to be. I am so thankful that you have been learning a lot of lessons from Mama’s negative side.
I love you so much, my daughter, I will continue to pray for you, please continue to pray for me as well. I am also praying with earnest for each and every hurting soul who lives in some corner of this present darkness.
There shall be no more fear, though, for Jesus is risen, and HE LIVES!!
I love this! Because I grew up with a raging alcoholic and that means as a older teenager and adult, I raged. I never raged. And only with males, like boyfriends or now my husband. I have not raged in 5 years now!!! Complete victory in Christ and a lot of therapy. But it’s so true, we all grow up a certain way, like I can tend to raise my voice, or speak loud, even if I’m not upset, but that doesn’t serve my family well, so , yep God, heal me and I work on that with God to get rid of it!!! I just want my heart WHOLE for the Lord and as long as I have sin and these old habits weighing me down, I won’t be whole, I know I won’t be made completely whole until the day He returns, but I can keep being refined day after day….