The Kitchen Family

T E N D E R   M E R C I E S

For more reasons than one {my toddler} I've been feeling a little discourage at the end of most days lately. Not for a long period of the night, just until Brock snuggles me for 30 seconds is all it takes, and lends a listening ear. I believe it is Satan trying to convince me that I wasn't a good enough Mom that day, or that I don't have the strength to make it another day, or there's not enough of me to go around - 

the mom, the wife, the friend, the daughter, 

the sister, the neighbor, the young women's leader...

Good thing I'm one tough woman.

I fallen MANY times but I don't feel like I've fallen for these tricks for too long EVER, and hope to never let it happen. Life is wonderful, but far from perfect. We are not here on earth to live a perfect life, thank Heavens. The older {and wiser} I get the more I realize how important it is to let the small things slide and not let them put a cramp in my groove. My dad and I were talking about this yesterday. He reminded me of this and he is a wonderful example to me of keeping an eternal perspective on things.

Brock is done with his first year of Med School in 3.5 weeks. It's been an interesting year, but one of the best of my life. BY FAR the hardest of my life so far. Contradicting, I know. But hopefully you can relate. I am truly grateful for the "TENDER MERCIES" that I have been giving from those around me, 

even the so called small ones like:

- Brock running to light a candle for me when the power went out while I was taking an extra long shower one night due to my crazy/hard day.

- My running group {Telicia Webb, Charity Jordan, Diana Loveland} dragging me out of bed every morning to keep my body feeling healthy and strong, and most importantly socializing and being unknown answer to my prayers.

- RAIN & RAINBOWS. When I thought my evening couldn't get any worse it DIDN'T. The rain quenched my lawn's thirst, cleaned the earth, and the rainbow put smiles on my family and I's faces and calmed our house down.

Tenders Mercies are very needed in my life.

I hope that I will never be so blind that 

I can't recognize them in my daily life.