Pressing towards the goal

Wife First.



Phillipians 3:12-14 ¹²Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. ¹³Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Wife first, mom second. That is my goal I am striving towards. Yes, of course, Jesus follower is the overall umbrella in which this all falls under :).I think it is interesting how the world has created what is "normal" is in all reality, the opposite of how it should be. When I was thinking of what I want my title for this blog to be: Wife First Mom Second, I thought about how even that in today's world is not normal. Like for instance, Jon and Kate plus 8. LOVED that show and sobbed my eyes out during the last episode. But as I hear them speak all they say/said was that first and foremost they are parents. Obviously they have forgotten what made them parents originally, because with out Jon, Kate wouldn't be a mom and with out Kate, Jon wouldn't be a dad. Right? In a way, I kind of hope the title of this bumps some, and it may because it's not the "norm", but it is the way it should be. I put the verse from Phillipians up because I don't have this down pat by any means but, I am going to try my hardest to love my husband and prefer him over my daughter,not that she will ever be in need but, so that we can be a better team and be better spouses and parents. I would love to have this task mastered but I don't and I probably never will because I am human and that is just the way it goes. I can continue to press on though, and learn from the Word and those around me and try my hardest to accomplish this.

Growing up I have wanted nothing more than to be married and be a mom. I also thought this would all be much easier than it really is, if I am just being honest. I thought "of course I will grow up and be the best helper/completer there is to my husband and the whole mom thing will be a breeze with showers and make up every day:)". Wow! I was wrong! I don't mean that in a bad way but when people say you have to work at marriage and families they aren't joking! It is the best thing you will ever have to work at though! I have the greatest husband and daughter in the world and truly could not ask for anything more! I am so fortunate to be able to stay at home with my sweet Zoe Laine and the credit for that really must go to my husband! He is such a hard working man and has such long hours and I am so grateful to him for his sacrifce!

As I start this blog my heart behind it is to be able to encourage those around me and shar my journey that the Lord is taking me and my family on. Since having Zoe, the Lord has really used her to teach me the importance of community and having others to lean on and learn from that are in similar seasons of life or have traveled through similar seasons. I am trying to learn to love the hard seasons and the "pruning" seasons because from those times comes the best fruit possible. Being a new mom is a hard job and I am so fortunate to have friends in the same boat with babies just months apart from Zoe. At times I may write about being a wife, or a mom, or both, or just something completely random that the Lord is teaching me or maybe even something funny. I really want to be a so funny person! Ha! Truly in all seriousness, I just ask that the Lord would use this blog to touch others and even to use it as my mission field when I cant physically go to the nations (my heart) or directly speak into others lives. So I hope you all enjoy as I start this. Feel free to leave comments or whatever you want. I am thankful for the life I have and the family I have and the God I get to serve when I am so unworthy of all of those.

So here I go pressing on towards the goal knowing bumps and bruises will come but the overall reward is going to be so worth it!
Mom Second.