http://www.deeprootsathome.com/why-have-we-stopped-protecting-our-daughters/
Hi everyone I just wanted to share this article with you. Mothers and fathers with daughters or sisters this is a must read in our "fast paced- making our kids grow up so fast society"
In Christ's love
Mattie
Here we are approaching our two year wedding anniversary. Looking back I am so humbled by what God has done. We are two broken people, pieced back together by Gods gentle hands. He has made us uniquely different and its perfect. Not us, but his plan. We still struggle, and grovel, and fight, we still have our own way if doing things and we probably won't every be on par with eachother. But we make it work, we brake down barriers and build up walls of protection in prayer. We seek God together and we try to look beyond ourselves. We are growing a family, much, much harder than a garden. We see eachother completely and look beyond the blemishes. We are still learning, and some days just trying to fight the tide. We still marval at how this all happened and still can't believe what Gods goodness has done. We smile, and laugh, we dream and we sing. (We really do sing.) We are smitten as can be by our babies, and with each passing day our love grows bigger and bigger, than we can even contain. We are two imperfect people, two sinners, we say, we come together, we kneel, we pray, we sit at the cross, knowing someday, we will all sit with the King at his throne and praise.
Walking with my friend, my very best friend, is not something I take for granted. After all I wasn't the one who brought him here.
In Christ's love
Mattie
Oh to be like you oh God! To know, understand and have the compassion that you do! I feel so heart broken when I look at the world around me. I don't like where its headed, I don't like the world me children will be growing up in. I honestly just want to cling to Jesus and let God hold us all. Because these days are evil, the world is corrupt, wrong has become acceptable even to the point of punishment to those who aren't tolerent of it. People kill their babies and government takes away our rights. How do we get through this? How do we stay strong. Maybe I'm the only one who sees it? Maybe I'm the only one who feels how God's heart breaks for his children. When they choose to walk along the path that seems right but will only lead to distruction.
All I can say is I just want more of Jesus! I want my heart, my life, my husband, and my children all to be so filled with God and his love that they will cling to him through out their whole lives. I want to know God more and seek his face. I want to pray more and grow closer with him. I don't want to waver in the face of fear. But stand upon the unshakable rock, who is my Lord and my redeemer! My ever present help in time of need. He has always been there and always will be. He is the beginning and the end. The first and the last. He is the one my soul longs for, and he hears me when I call. He leads me beside still waters and he restores my soul. He will never leave me nor forsake me. Under his wing I can take refuge. I can be strong and courageous, because the Lord my God is with me! He has plans for my life and the lives of my family, they are good plans, plans to prosper us and not of harm. Plans to give us hope and a bright future. I can come to him and pray and he hears me.
I want to have a Jesus heart, I want to know him more. I want to have a Jesus heart, I want to know him more.
In Christ's love
-Mattie
