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It’s your decision! Be sure to make the right one!
Posted by firequill | Posted in Articles/Stories By Kathy Kearney, Helpful Articles | Posted on 01-02-2010
Kathy and I were given the privilege of raising three beautiful children. All three are unique as all children are; given their own set of talents and gifts from God.
This article isn’t about the three but only one in particular, a daughter named Leslie Janel. She is the middle child, an older brother and a younger sister. In rearing them Kathy and I both recognized that unless God gave us what we needed we would make a horrible mess as child rearing scared both of us to death.
We taught all our children the Scriptures and taught them how to pray. We took them to church and saw to it that each was led to accept Christ as early as they were able to understand what it meant. Of all the children though Leslie seemed to have a special “walk” with the Lord. She has taught Bible classes, which I have had the privilege of sitting in on and noted that she has a unique understanding of Scripture.
Kathy and I moved to Phoenix Arizona in January of 2002 leaving both our daughters in southern California. They made snide remarks about our moving to hell and they said they would never live in the desert. Yet Leslie joined us here in 2004 and Kim and her family just relocated here in 2008. As a result Leslie and I have had a wonderful father/daughter relationship in her adult years.
Les and I started an online business in 2005 which has grown to three businesses. Anyone who has ever had a website selling anything knows the hardest part is getting traffic to the site. Leslie is the designer, I attempt to write (I’m getting better), and do research. Yesterday was one of those frustrating days and I shared some of those frustrations with Les and closed my email with “I suppose I could pray about this, I often forget the power of prayer.” I jokingly said, “I don’t suppose you ever have that problem, do you”?
Her response was really what this article is about, she replied “I make a conscious decision every day to give the Lord the entire day and then just do my work”. She also said that making this decision helps to make her more calm and less stressed by giving it to Him each morning. Also she said “it’s a reminder to her as the day progresses and she gets overwhelmed to slow down, remember her promise to give the ENTIRE day to Him, and then refocus”. Did you get that? WOW!! May every child of God do that, how often we forget as I know I do. It’s my (your) choice, your decision to make, give the day to Him and then do what he gives you to do with all your might!
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