Links worth sharing...

Here are some thought-provoking musings on "motherhood" at Resolved2Worship.  Our success isn't measured by how well or poorly our children "turn out."  Our fulfillment and satisfaction and value is found in Christ alone.


And here is a timely post (for me) from True Woman.  Just the other night I was saying to Stephen - again - that I wouldn't have chosen this...another child in our family...really, another pregnancy.  The tears came, and I struggled to express my feelings to him.  I explained that I know she is worth it...all of the pregnancy unpleasantness and what I see as the wrecking crane that's been taken to my physical body.


After the first baby, yes, my body had changed.  But after the fourth?  There's just NO going back.


But I know deep down that although my body will be changed, my heart will be changed too when I see her little face and her fingers and toes and fall in love again.


So yes, it's true that she's worth it.  But it's also true that I wouldn't have chosen this path.  Yet God chose it for me - for us - and I trust that He is going to use it for my good and His glory.  The True Woman post reminded me of how God uses our circumstances and trials to mold us into the likeness of His Son, bringing His own name glory and praise...not just praise from our lips, but praise from the mouths of the countless beings who surround His throne continually.