Reflection - Making Every Moment Count - Stop, Be Still and Enjoy ~

As we wait patiently to welcome a new family member into our lives, I sit back and think about how life works. We get married take the time to enjoy and get to know our spouses. We then start having kids one by one watching each of them grow and blossom. We go through tough times where we might think to ourselves

I can’t wait till they are older so we can get passed this or this growing stage can be so challenging.

I know there were times I have thought these things. I wanted them to be a little older and more independent of me so it could be easier. I figured the more they could do on their own the less I had to do. I know better now. As I sit and reflect back on our family video that was made in 2015, just three years ago I literally cry. I think about how little they were and how we will never get those three years back. Once time has passed it’s gone forever...

I have learned through experience and other parents that every stage has it’s own challenges. There’s no skipping ahead to the “easier” zone. Each zone faces it’s own struggles. Our children will be in our lives forever, even as adults. We will always be their parents no matter how “grown up” they get. Even in those grown up years their will be challenges. I know this because my parents have had to help me and had to deal with me in my adult life as well as my siblings. The fact is life keeps happening no matter our age and life is never perfect.

I encourage you today to stop...be still and enjoy the current stage of your family. Take the time to look at your children and all of their imperfections, needs, annoyances, struggles, failures, achievements, strengths, weaknesses and innocents. Take note of their love for you, desire to be around you, looking up to you, need for your attention and confirmation and dependency on you. They won’t be little forever. Time will go on and things will change as they grow. We have to take the good with the bad and enjoy every single moment of it. Life is precious and we should focus on making a huge impact on our children while they are young. God has given us stewardship over these little souls and their adult lives will be a reflection of how we raised them. Let’s make every moment count while we have the chance and find something to love about every stage of parenting. ❤️

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