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Moms Making a Difference

School’s back in session, and the house is oddly quiet. It’s time I got back to my works-in-progress, my newest endeavor, From the Dust of Rose Hill. As I sat down in front of my laptop today, thoughts began flooding my mind of how to approach this new work. I opened an email from Diane, one of the blessings of friendship I have encountered in my first months of becoming a Stay-At-Home-Mom. A wonderful and enlightening conversation followed that, had I been anywhere else in the world at this moment on a traditional job, would not or in all liklihood could not have occurred.

Diane is an encourager. Her words and thoughts over at Partners in Prayer for our Prodigals will bless you and enrich your life as she chronicles the blessings and struggles of parenting a wayward son. In the months that followed our meeting, I have come to realize that God in his infinite wisdom has placed her in my path for specific reasons. But not only her, a plethora of wonderful moms, all beautiful and funny and engaging in their own special ways. This is the joy of the internet, my friends. The fact that we can share our lives — however far apart we may be — and lift up one another is an incredible miracle to me.

You see, being a stay-at-home-mom is sometimes a lonely job. Not being out in the corporate world has its perks, but you lose a lot of that day-to-day interaction that keeps one sane. It helps to be able to log on and find moms who are experiencing the same things you are experiencing day by day. It helps to have a shoulder to cry on, a friend to rejoice with, a partner in prayer. If you think I’m wrong about this, visit some of these wonderful ladies’ blogs and see how much prayer goes on. In a day and age where it is being banned in public places right and left, it is an awesome feeling to know that the world cannot stop prayer from continuing. There is a band of believers and moms silently — and sometimes not so silently, making their way around the world, holding each other up — holding each other’s families and children up to God. Once God puts something in motion, you can’t stop it. Your words are a powerful thing, mothers. At the risk of sounding preachy, let’s remember that as we interact here. I want to make a difference. Don’t you?

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Written By: Cynthia
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