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At What Cost Is Your Sacrifice?

10/26/2015

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I was thinking about my boys today and how proud I am of them.  I feel that my most important job is being a good wife and mother.  I have been blessed with having a employer who allows me to work from home, and I've been doing so for quite some amount of years.  A couple years ago, however a "government" type position came available and there was more pay, more benefits, retirement, and we were struggling financially.  Not to the point where where we couldn't pay bills, but the kind where we were just paying bills and not getting ahead.  Those two years would prove to be the worst employment decision I have ever made.  The stress that I encountered, the emotional turmoil it placed on my family, the constant "busy" but not going anywhere scenario. Becoming a "career woman" had taken place of being a "wife and mother"  and I was very much unhappy.  Even though my boys were old enough to take care of themselves after school and during the summer, I watched the 2 yrs fly by, and I missed out on A LOT.  That decision caused me to sacrifice the one thing that meant the most to me and caused me health issues.

I look at my boys now, one is driving and one is getting getting ready to, both are taller than myself and probably much wiser then me also.  I cringe to think that the time is upon us where one is getting ready to face independent life and knowing how fast time flew, the other will follow shortly there after.

I think back on the days when my boys were toddlers.  Our only Daycare Mom had moved and since that time, I determined that no one else would raise my children.  It would be my responsibility.  My husbands Mother lived 4 hours away and my Mother had a child still in school so we didn't have the help most people do in getting a break from our kids.  It was tough then...but we did everything with our kids.  No nanny, no babysitter, it was always Us and the Boys.  They were influenced and active in every decision we made, we stopped going out to any establishment that didn't allow children, and we focused on being a family.

I look back on what that decision did for our family.  We slowed down the busyness of life, we sacrificed money, we sacrificed friends, we invested in our family.  My boys enjoy church, they love Jesus, we still read the Bible as a family every single night without issue.  And we are close.  Very close.

I love being a Mom... it's the most important job I have, and I love being a wife to a Man that walks along side of me keeping Christ as our center.  We've made so many mistakes in life, and yet God held on to us.  I love that.  I love that through our chaos, God can bring perfect order.  I love that he gave me a chance to learn how to be a good wife and a great Mom.  In reality, I didn't sacrifice anything.... Yet, I gained everything with Christ as our Center.

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