Two beautiful white wedding dresses hanging in my closet. It is an odd thing to me because, I never had a wedding dress or even daughters who had wedding dresses. But something wonderful happened as I was cleaning out my closets this time and moving the dresses once again to another location. I saw those 2 beautiful dresses in a new and blessed light. I saw the two beautiful girls in the dresses. I saw the handsome young men stand next to them and promise to love, honor and cherish them in front of God, each other and me. I saw what a precious gift I was given on each of those special days.
God has so blessed my life in ways that I could never express. It is one of those things that I can only ask Him to look at my heart as only He can and see how grateful I am for all of the blessings He gives.
Mother and Daughters In Law get a bad reputation sometimes of not getting along and always being in competition with each other. They trash each other and so many times cause unrepairable emotional damage. So what is my take on "The In-laws"? I am blessed!
Let me first say that my girls are totally opposite to me. We have some similar likes and dislikes, but personality wise, we couldn't be more opposite. Even though I may not know exactly how the feel about me, I know one thing for sure, they love God, my boys and my grandbabies. They chose to join our family, they chose to love my boys and choose to have my beautiful grandchildren. They are the girls that I never had and I am so thankful to their parents for raising such wonderful young women for my 2 young men to marry.
I guess after looking, yes, I had to open the bags and look at the dresses, I just remember how blessed I am. How much God loves me and blesses my heart each and every day. Even just a white wedding dress hanging in my closet reminds me the God loves me and choses to bless my life. The question on my heart today is, "Do I choose Him today? Do I choose to serve Him and not the world? Do I choose Him to spend my quiet time with or do I choose the world, who doesn't love me and only wants to bring negative thoughts and feelings into my heart.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.
It is a choice you have to make every second of every day. You have to choose to serve God and his will for your life or you will serve the world and all of its selfish wants and needs. It isn't easy and it will take sacrifice and discipline on your part, but the payoff is awesome. Your life will be blessed and wealthy, not with money and things but with peace, love and joy of knowing that God has your back and is watching over you if you CHOOSE HIM and not the world.
I am praying that anyone who reads this will see God and how making the choice to Love Him, Seek Him and cling to Him is so much better that the temporary things the world has to offer!
