While I was finishing up my orders of school supplies needed for the coming year, I picked myself up a little something I have had my eye on for awhile. Mrs. Sharp's Traditions - Reviving Victorian Family Celebrations of Comfort & Joy is full of ideas of celebrating the year through and making the everyday a reason to celebrate. I have not had time to sit down and take a good look at the book yet, but hoping to get some inspiration as we head into September, I flipped back to the first page of the chapter and this jumped out at me:
"As you take your walks this month, dear Reader, imagine each gold and brown leaf lying on the ground as a day from your children's lives that's already past. Can you really afford to wait even one more day to begin sowing the seeds of loving memories into their young lives?"
And of course the answer is No, I cannot afford waste anymore days waiting for the right time to come along, but instead I must learn how to take the time and resources that I have been given and use it to the best of my ability to be what my children need me to be. I have struggled much over the past year with selfishness, and really wanting to slack on my job as mother, but I see how much I will regret that looking back someday. This September, my prayer is that I will find my servant heart, that I will find renewed strength to make it through the hard days, and that I will not let the good days slip by without notice or celebration. I am so looking forward to digging into this book!
but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. Isaiah 40:31
