If I Can Encourage You . . .
When I began writing this blog years ago, it was at the close of a year. Many years later, the beginning of a new one compels me to write again as I think about how to encourage a young friend beginning her journey into motherhood as she impatiently awaits the birth of her son later this month. When I think about how to encourage another mother, I must think of my own journey and the lessons learned along the way. Have I done it well? At times. Have I done everything I set out to do? That would be a resounding no! Have I failed miserably? Many times over, and I would spare you the pain of it. So life goes; yet it goes in the way God has ordained— He who “chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him” (Ephesians 1:4). Do I even pretend to totally understand how that works . . . uhm, no; however, it doesn’t mean I can discard what I don’t understand. Mostly, I understand that I am to offer encouragement to others as long as “it i