Clever title, no?
The title came first. The blogpost will have to be made to fit it. Now, why am I missing inaction? Hm.
Oh yeah.
Because I’m sick, but mothers don’t get sick days. So I’m missing the good old days when Mommy would tuck me into bed, stick a thermometer under my tongue, and let me sip orange juice through a straw.
Except, actually, my mother generally did no such thing. She’d grab me by the scruff of my neck, look me straight in the eyes and say,
“What’s going on? WHY are you sick?”
Worked every time, with me any way. Never failed.
Heck, she still does that – just over the phone now.
“You’re probably feeling guilty about that painting we sent you for Mother’s Day, aren’t you? Well, you ARE a good mommy and you DO deserve it, so let it go.”
Annie Henrie: “Little Mother”
Alas, it doesn’t work quite as well without her normally soft, green eyes flashing sparks of mother-power and scaring the snot out of me.
It is a gorgeous little painting. And maybe I am feeling guilty or not worthy or something twisted of that nature. Don’t we all have issues with that sometimes? It stems from a half-truth, you know. We really aren’t worthy, any of us. Not by a long shot.
Mosiah 2:23-3523 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth arequire that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bbless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?
25 And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were acreated of the bdust of the earth; but behold, it cbelongeth to him who created you.
But does that mean we need to be miserable? No. Humble and miserable are not the same thing. I believe the Lord does indeed want us to rejoice, to lift up our heads and our hearts, to find joy and gladness in all that He’s blessed us with. Somehow, in spite of our unworthiness, in spite of our sins and our shortsightedness, He still loves us! He wants us to repent and to change and to partake of the mercy He so freely extends – because He loves us.
It’s a miracle and one worth celebrating every day of our lives.
Psalms 19:8 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, arejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is bpure, cenlightening the eyes.
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