PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE

In our church, we take communion on a regular basis and we are also to take confession periodically during the year and as needed.  Part of the preparation for confession and communion by fasting, which means no meat or dairy products, and also prayer.  God is a lot smarter than some people think.  The above is not only important for church, it is also critical for survival as a mother!   It all leads to lessons in patience and trust in a higher being. 

If you do not have patience as a mother (oh heck, you need it first as a wife!) your kids will eat you alive!  It is patience that gets you through the 100th time someone hollers for mommy.  It keeps you from running away from home when you have refereed the 500th squabble of the day.  It keeps you from throwing food in the house when something has spilled for the 800th time right after you have just cleaned up! 

It teaches you and your children to trust in a higher being.  You pray to God that you can hold it all together every day.  Your kids better learn to pray to God also that you hold it all together. 

The reward comes when the day is over and you look at them sleeping like angels as they sleep (right before they wake up and join you in bed).  It also comes when they are so proud of the work they do in school and bring home papers to hang on the refrigerator.  It comes when they graduate from high school and college. And finally the reward comes when they have children of their own and you sit back and giggle while they learn about the same patience you built them with!  God I love gran