………..As Only Your Mama Can

O is for Ocean, Only and One

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Ocean

You are the daughter of a mother who loves the ocean.  I am the mother of a daughter who loves the ocean.  I am not sure why we so love the ocean, but we do and we have and I cannot remember a single time in my life when I did not.  I cannot remember a single time in your life when you did not.

 

I feel closest to God at the ocean….there is a mindfulness which comes to me when I am there. 

I feel the presence of the Lord most intimately and most powerfully….at the ocean.

Prayers come simpler, laughter comes sweeter, and memories are made deeper at the ocean…

It is a great gift God gives us when He gives us the ocean….and, I am grateful.

Only

You are my only daughter.  When your dad and I were in pre-marriage counseling, we discussed how many children we wanted to have and we both said simultaneously, “four”.  One daughter, twin sons and a child of which we don’t know the sex.

We had our daughter, Madison.  We had twin sons, Kenton and Johnson, and we had our precious baby which we miscarried and truly do not know the sex of, but have always called him Joseph.

I no longer wonder at the way God works…..

I just stand in awe….

In the process of having our children, God found it fit to give me a “one and only” daughter.  There comes a lot of responsibility with being the oldest…and being the oldest daughter.

There are responsibilities you carry in your life as our oldest which neither of your brothers will ever understand.  Pressures, stresses, challenges which only first borns can know.

I see that baby.

Embrace your “only” status…..accept it, embrace it, and be glad for it…..see the positives which come from being the first and the only daughter….

Ask God to grow in you a fortitude and insight and direction so that your life is one which upon looking back upon it, you can be proud.

This life is about giving God the glory in our lives…taking the good in us and reflecting it back to this world….taking the bad in us and using it for His good and reflecting it back to this world…

Embrace your only daughter status….accept it…..

Use it…..

Every single day for the rest of your life…….

Jesus was an only....he understands

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  John 3:16 

One

There are many “ones” in your life…but, these are truly the only “ones” which really matter….

God

Jesus

Holy Spirit

His Written Word

When you understand this and immerse your daily life into living this truth, then your life’s purpose and meaning will become more real and more clear and more live-able to you.

It is really as simple as that!  

Blessings on your week…..

ILYAOYMC,

Mama