Words… Words… Words…. I have so many zooming through my mind that trying to decide what to do has not been easy.  First thing that came to mind is LOVE. It is all around us right now… it is February- Valentines…. every where we go there are hearts, red and pink decorations, valentines! I am reminded how easy it is to say a quick I Love You or show a fun or quick gesture… and how great those are.

Then I start thinking about the love that I have experienced as a mother. A love I had never known before. Not that I did not love my parents or my sister or my dear and precious husband…. but the love for my children was definitely different in a very special way.

Having our children and working together on how to parent brought on discussions of our childhoods and put them in a whole new light. Things we heard over and over came to mind easily and we had to decide what parts of our childhoods we wanted to carry on and bring to our girls. One thing that we had both heard was… “I am so disappointed in you for…….” You can fill in the blank with almost anything. I am disappointed in you for not cleaning your room, or for lying, or for _________ you pick it. It is easy when our children or our spouses are disobedient or hurtful to say that we disappointed in them. Being disappointed in SOMEONE and being disappointed in the CHOICE they made are really different. There is a quote from Phillip Yancey about grace and Tal and I have modified it for our girls. We tell them this often… “There is NOTHING that you can do to make us love you more! and there is NOTHING that you can do to make us love you less! We love you when you make good choices and we love you when you make bad choices!

So as we think about this fun month of LOVE, think about ways you can show and scrap messages of deep, unconditional love to those you are blessed to have as family and friends. Here is a quick page freebie that you can use to leave that message for your spouse, your children, your parents, your friends… any of the people that you are blessed to have in your life. Relationships are not always the fairytales that we dream them to be; but they are worth the hard work of keeping them strong and open and honest.

If you want to tell someone in your life this message, post to this thread (Here to be PM’d the Freebie) who you are going to scrap this page for and I will PM you the link.

Have a Wonderful Wednesday