You are the Best Mom.....for them!

God allows us each to have trials in our lives to test our faith and to teach us patience.  I love what the Bible says in James 1 about trials :

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.


As a mom, it is tough to watch your children struggle.  It doesn't matter what their struggle is from learning issues to medical issues to emotional issues.  They are all struggles, but God knows that when we face these things in HIS strength it produces something good.   Even a trial or struggle is a gift from God....but in our humaness it's hard to understand it.  We all want to ask "Why me, God?"  "Why do MY boys have to struggle to communicate with me?",  "Why do my kids have this disease?",  "Why does my daughter struggle with an eating disorder" etc.  But these are the very trials in our lives and the lives of our kids that will shape them into the person that God wants them to be. 

Someone once said to me, "You are the best Mom for your sons.  God chose you to be their mom b/c he knew you would know how to take care of them."  That still brings tears to my eyes.  To know that I am specially chosen for Logan and Cole and Mikayla is important to me.  I may not always have the answer for them and I may not always respond just right to a meltdown, but I know that no matter what God chose me to be their mom!