"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."
Williams George Jordan
I can remember the when I first held my daughter in my arms after giving birth. I felt as if I was holding such a HUGE gift in such a small package. At that moment the world seemed to stop and all my worries seem to disappear in an instant it seemed as if nothing else even mattered. In the upcoming days, weeks, months, and years that feeling seemed to quickly fade after I received doctor bills, hospital bills, needed to buy diapers and formula, and four months later found myself to be a single parent.
It seemed as if my biggest accomplishment was rapidly becoming my biggest burden. I could not see past the need to meet all my daughter’s needs. I was always so worried about how I was going to provided that it began to consume all my thoughts. I found myself so wrapped up into what I needed to do next, that I was no longer taking the time to enjoy the reason I was working so hard, my daughter. I would come home from work make dinner turn on her favorite video, and begin job #2 building my business. I would spend hours researching, trying to build vendor lists, and book clients that I had forgotten to invest in the one thing that would bring me the biggest reward. I had forgotten that one day she will be a great and mighty woman of God, with a family, of her own, and if I don’t accomplish another thing in my life, then that is enough.
“He who fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge. Proverbs 14:26(NIV)
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