A Letter to Her, During this Mother's Day Weekend...I love you! But.....

I remember the day so well. It was a Tuesday, you had been inching your way closer to the sunshine for the past 24 hours, I could feel you making your way down.  Early that morning, while resting my water break but I was clueless, did not know what was going on. I mentioned it to your daddy but he did not know. I called "my mommy" and asked her and she explained what was happening.

It did not take long for things to escalate and we knew we had to get to the hospital but even still we made a detour and stopped to get some very good friends.

We rushed to the hospital and found that I would have to be by myself because of the construction in the private ward. This is sad but it was what it was. A few hours later, I was being taken into the operating room and it was a few minutes before you entered this world. A gift so precious that I can to this day, say that I am so unworthy that God would allow me the privilege to be your mother.

Your dad met you and it was love at first sight!

They took me my room and your grandfather's were the first to visit you that day! They had you in the nursery and the bassinet beside me was empty.

When my father came, we were talking waiting for you to come not knowing when they would bring you. I heard a cry from down the hall and I said to my dad, "that's my baby"; he looked at me and said that could be any baby, you don't even know her yet.

But sure enough two minutes had not passed and the nurse came in with you crying. I looked at him and i said, I told you so!

I love you! But......

My love can be fickle

My love does not last forever

There are times when my arms cannot hold you, although I want to

My love is partial and so sometimes flawed

My love cannot touch your soul

My love cannot transform your mind

I love you! But....

My love pales!

In comparison to the one who is Love!

His love is not fickle

His love does last forever

his arms can hold you anywhere you are!

His love has no partiality and so is not flawed

His love does touch the soul

His love can transform your mind

His love does not pale to anything or anyone!

20 years later and it seems as if it is day one. This mother's day weekend I want to continue to point you to the ONE whose love is Real, Unfailing. you can find no greater love than Jesus!. My daughter, this is the greatest gift I know to give because as flawed as I am, He renewed me, He cleanse me. I would not be alive today, were it not for Him. Jesus!

He is the best this world has to offer. My daughter, He tells us to love another as we love ourselves. And, so I choose the best to give to you! I love you! But.......Jesus loves You Better!

Mommy

"If You Don't Stand For Something, You Will Fall for Anything"

"If You Don't Stand For Something, You Will Fall for Anything, " this is a saying that I remember hearing all though life from many different places.

As a Christian, this has taken on a greater meaning to me and not more so in my life than during this time of starting this ministry. When God spoke to me concerning starting this ministry, I was presented with a checklist things to do and the last on the list was, " Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."

This was the last on that particular checklist because that was what I would need the most. The enemy of faith, you see is fear. Fear of people, what they would say, what they would do, whether they would believe in you, whether they will come alongside you, anything you can possibly think of. In the face of these fears is my Lord and Savior saying,..."I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with my righteous hand".  These assurances may mean nothing to you but to me it means everything; for you see God was the one who died for me, the one who saved my life, the one who laid down His life for me. No One else has ever done that for me.

So as I, and others who have joined me in this ministry, to bring glory to God's name, we stand. We stand for the Sanctity of life for every person, every life because they are all precious in His sight. I know that the time will come for persecution, for condemnation, for ridicule but He says that I am to take up my cross daily and follow Him. I don't just want to sit back and admire my brothers and sisters who are dying for their faith; I want to join my Lord in the fields and harvest the crops that He desires.

This stand is for life and death; a spiritual war; a fight for the very lives of our people. The government can't fight this fight only the church. God's People!!  These are some verses that I keep in front of me.

And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:19

'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me."Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;…Matt 25:40