To my precious readers… Today,  I linked with others at The Gypsy Mama , who prompts writers with a word. Today it is LOUD. Then we have just 5 minutes to let the words flow from our hearts, unedited and unhindered. So here is my 5 minutes worth…

“Don’t just tell me… Show me.”

I can’t expect something from my kids that I don’t even do myself… If I want them to grow, I must grow.

I’ve got decades on them and I’m still learning. If I look at them as a work in continual process like my own, as a work of grace that will never end as long as I walk this dusty earth, if I remember that I am growing with them, it can be a work of joy and love and learning and living.

This is what I remind myself those day the underdeveloped bring me to the brink of exasperation and my words become deafening.

While Living with them…

Schooling them…

Discipling  them…

I am growing WITH them together…

into the picture God has designed for our lives — our family. I must find continual joy — To have the most influential part in their lives — To help them through their struggles –To see them rise victorious — To let them make mistakes and find forgiveness.

I must show them, more than tell them. My actions should speak louder than my words ever could. I must be their living example shouting loud with my actions LOVE and GRACE.

And this… I am still learning.