Luke, Patty, Anna Kate, Caroline, and Eleanor

Luke, Patty, Anna Kate, Caroline, and Eleanor

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

A sacred and holy trust...


I have been struggling a bit lately with Anna Kate's relatively new level of separation anxiety/general clingy-ness to her mommy. Not that I don't LOVE snuggling and holding her, because I do, but it has been hard to not be able to leave her in the nursery for Bible study, or various other church activities, or be able to get things done around the house when she just wants to be held. Anyway, I came across this quote from a 19th-century American pastor named J.R. Miller and it has been quite an encouragement to me, so I thought I would share it here:

"O, that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse into the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no others' hand the sacred and holy trust given to her."
--JR Miller

That is my prayer today - that I would be faithful to the sacred and holy trust which God has given me!

3 comments:

  1. I feel the same way! Megan has been like this for a couple months and it makes going to church so difficult. The devil definitely knows how to get to a momma!Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Patty, That was beautiful. I am so proud of the mother you are. I love you so much.

    Your mommy

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  3. Wow Petrie! Beautiful quote. I'm sending along to NCC Moms!

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