A Mother's Legacy... 5/7/11

"A want to leave a legacy... How will they remember me? Did I choose to love? Did I point to you enough to make a mark on things? I want to leave an offering a child of mercy and grace who blessed your name unapologetically...And leave that kind of Legacy". Nicole Nordeman~Legacy

The above lines may just be verses of a song, but since I heard them years ago they have been my prayer and the legacy I will leave my children! My mother went to be with the Lord over 20 years ago and I didn't have the best relationship with her. She had a hard life and a hard time showing me any affection. But one thing I remember and that is walking into her room and finding her on her knees in prayer. She was a woman dedicated to her family and a hard working woman. She always made sure there was food on the table and my friends and family where always welcomed! That is the legacy I choose to keep of her. She was a woman that found the Lord and clung to Him and didn't let Him go! She would talk about heaven and how wonderful it would be to walk in the streets of Gold (specially if it meant that she would be skinny forever!) Hahaha!

Now is my turn and my prayer is that my children will see that I am choosing to love and show mercy and grace, because much has been given to me. I hope that my life can make a difference in their lives and in others because of what God has done not because of anything I have accomplished. That's the kind of legacy I want to leave. My prayer is that without a doubt they would know that I loved the Lord and made no excuses about it. I want to pass on a Godly Legacy!

I may Not be well traveled, not well read, not well-to-do or well bred but one day I Just want to hear instead, "Well Done" good and faithful one...And leave that kind of Legacy

How about you? Have you considered what kind of legacy you are leaving your children? Not just the ones you gave birth too, but your spiritual ones as well. This past year I had many health issues and My daughter was blessed with two spiritual Mothers, Carol and Andie. From one she received the practical side of the mom she needed and from the other she received the spiritual. Both Andie and Carol are practical and spiritual, but my daughter related to them in a different way and it worked out perfectly! The Lord knew what she needed and it gave me so much peace that her needs where being met and that my dear friends were being her Titus 2 ladies. They are both her "Spiritual Moms or other Moms" like my daughter dearly calls them.

But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. 

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. In all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us. (Titus 2:1,3,4,5,8)