How Do You Do It?

As a mother to Five

I get asked quite often

"How do you do it ?"

Really...

People are watching

People are looking

People are observing

Me?

What I do

day in and out

is "normal" to me.

I don't feel that

I do anything different

than what may be the "norm."

My "norm" growing up

was going door to door

witnessing to people

trying to tell them how they are on the wrong side.

The wrong side of how to do things.

The wrong side of life.

The wrong side of God.

That was the "norm" then.

I was use to being watched, observed, looked upon

For error

mistake

 how I'm not doing it

 "quite right."

So for me to think about people watching how I parent, or run my house 

"doing it all" shouldn't come as a surprise, but it does.

Is there something I'm not sharing?

Do I have a "Secret weapon in my back pocket?"

Is it "Top Secret and Confidential?"

Could I just "Let the cat out of the bag?"

SURE

But only this once...

This is what works for me
My Bible and My Coffee !

Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth?

Hello readers of Veracity.

It has been over one month since we last connected.

Thank you for always checking back to see what is going on here at Veracity.

I can't say I've been busy 

I won't use that excuse.

If I may be completely honest with you

I would have to say I have been

like Jacob.

Wrestling with God. 

Interesting how my oldest son Isaac

joined wrestling for the first time this year.

It was a short season, lasting of about  3 months.

It was a long and hard season on mommy (me).

A different long and hard season on him.

Jacob wrestled with God.

Jacob's name was changed to Israel

because "he had struggled with God and with humans

and had overcome. " *

I know that you have struggled just like I have

with God and humans, but have we overcome?

This is what I have been seeking God in this past month.

Have I overcome?

And

"Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth?" *

Lord, Can anything good 

come from being raised as a Jehovah's Witness?

At times throughout my life

I would have been the first to say no.

Again being honest at times, there are days

 my thoughts sometimes go to no.

I would never speak it out loud.

I will not give voice to such a lie.

But those thoughts do come to mind.

We all have a purpose.

We all have a voice.

We all have an opportunity

to make right what was wrong.

The good that came out of the wrong

was me finding Christ.

The good that came out of the wrong

is my heavenly hope with Christ.

The good that came out of the wrong

is I am saved by faith and not works. *

The good that came out of the wrong

is that I have been adopted into a family

God's family. *

A family that wants me, for me.

A family that loves and does not reject.

Look for the good.

Seek out the good.

Ask God about the good.

And He will say, and I can say

just like Philip

"Come and see!" *

You will see Jesus if you believe. *

And 

You will overcome

 because Christ has overcome the world. *

* Genesis 32:28, John 1:46, Ephesians 2:8, Galatians 4:4-6, John 1:49-51, John 16:33