The Mama Ministry

There are times when God lays something on your heart that just doesn't make sense, but He does it in such a way that you know it was from Him.

I've been a messy Mama for awhile now.  My son turned 13 (yikes!) this winter and my daughter turned 11 (what?) this spring.  That's a lot of MESSY!  Plenty of mistakes, but plenty of miracles too.

Just recently, God called me back into my home full-time.  He asked me to step away from the Community Bible Study ministry in my hometown and focus on the ministry of being a Mama and a wife.  A Mama to my own children, and a Mama to foster children.  But of higher priority, a better wife to my man.  Marriage can be even more messy than Mamahood!  (Can I get an AMEN!) 

But with this call on my life, came a loss of writing and loss of intimacy with women.  Writing is like breathing for me at times.  Especially when it's what God writes through my fingers.  There's an exhilaration like none other when I sit down at my laptop and God starts pouring His words all over the keys and screen!  And the sisterhood of women just makes this girly-girl dance on the inside!

My compassionate God knew this new journey would be a sacrifice for me.  Yet He planted a dream in my mind and heart that would meet this desire to write and connect with women;  while giving God the glory in what may seem mundane and repetitive---being a Mama.

There is no greater ministry than being a godly Mama.  We shape our children's adult years NOW.  Good and bad.  That's a significantly high calling!  One we can only accomplish through Jesus Christ.

So, I invite you to join me on this crazy, messy journey that only God knows where it is going.  It may crash and burn, but it may grow wings and fly.  Either way, God is in it and only His purposes will prevail.  

God is writing this story for his Glory!  And so the "Diary of a Messy Mama"  begins...........