Six children with different bents, quirks, ideas and personalities. Each one unique from the other. How is it possible when they share the same mom and dad? They say no two people, of the 6.76 billion, world population have the same palm print or fingerprint. This is incredible.
There are over 10,000 bird species,
an estimated 100,000 different trees…
and more then 1,000,000 different insect species.
Our God showing He is a God of variety. I cannot fathom the greatness of Him.
With six children, alike in some ways, but different in so many other areas how can I know how to lead and train them? Raising children is no cakewalk for me. I need help and direction. Some days I make one mistake and then compound it by making another. I need so much guidance. To whom do I turn? I know of no one better to ask than the one who created them.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee…
Before they were in my thinking God knew them and ordained them for some life purpose just as He did Jeremiah.
and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5
I cling to James 1:5.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
I need wisdom and all I have to do is ask and He will give liberally. How wonderful!
David Murdock, the 214th wealthiest person in the world quotes his favorite poem “Invictus” by the British poet, William Ernest Henley, in the January
Costco Connection magazine:
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
How could I ever want to be the master of my fate and captain of my own soul? I am so glad that God is my Captain and not myself and that He is guiding our family. I need someone bigger than myself.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11
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