If I look back, even as far back as childhood, I knew that I wanted kids. I knew that I wanted a family. Not just any family, but a close family. Brian and I have raised our kids. Together we have four kids and as I say often a whole football team of grandkids and one more on the way :-). Our lives have changed a lot over the past 5 years. For many years my focus has been my career. I had a goal and wanted to learn and experience as much as possible about the healthcare industry. I feel like that I have done that. I have made many job changes in order to gain that knowledge. Looking back on it, I don’t regret any of it. Working in healthcare and helping people is what God designed me for (from a professional standpoint).
Even though the Lord has groomed me and gave me the knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry, I believe he has been preparing me for greater things from a personal standpoint. I mentioned in the first paragraph that our family has grown over the last several years. Brian and I have two girls and two boys and at the moment 5 1/2 grandchildren (a precious baby boy is on his way). As I look back on my life, I realize that the Lord has been preparing me to be the best Nana/Gigi that I can possibly be. He has been preparing me to be the best mom/stepmother that I can possibly be. He has been preparing me to be the best mother in law that I can possibly be. This is a big task. One that I don’t take lightly. I realize that I influence these children. He has entrusted our children and grandchildren to us.
My job is to love them, to teach them, to prepare them for that time when I will no longer be here. More than anything I want them to know that I love them more than they will ever know. I want them to know that they were born for a reason. I want to be that person that teaches them that they were born for a reason and that reason is to love God, to love others, to serve others, to prefer others over themselves. They are not here for all of those material things of this world. They are here to love, unconditional love. Love that only views people as God’s people. I hope that our children (grandchildren, son and daughter in law)
For a big part of my life I have had to focus so much time and energy on my career to help support my family. My prayer for this season of my life is to focus on my family. Life is short and I want them to know, not by my words but my actions that I love them and want to be a positive influence in their lives. The Lord gave them to me so that I could help teach them that conditional love that Christ has given me. So, my job as wife, mom, nana, Gigi, stepmom, and mother in law is to show them that same love that He has shown me. It is to help teach them that love is the most important thing that we can do in this life. That is why the Lord gave me breath.
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