A New Role

What role are you most comfortable in? Are you a business person? A teacher? An artist? A doctor or nurse? Perhaps you are gifted in many different roles. I have always gravitated towards roles that involve people. For example, I have been a teacher, coach, and counselor thus far in my life. A new role I am learning is being a mother.

Two questions that I often get asked are, “Do you like staying at home?” And, “Do you miss teaching?” The answer to both questions is, “yes.” I absolutely love every second of getting to be with Grace and Kalei; on the flip side, I do miss the interaction with middle school students and adults. I have realized that I am still a teacher; but now my subject matter is feeding babies, changing diapers, napping, playtime, reading time, tummy time, rolling time, sitting time, standing time, bouncing time, and of course, dancing time.

My lesson plans now consist of preparing healthy meals for the girls (and Cole and me), networking with other children who are Grace and Kalei’s age, and organizing my ‘to do list’ in hopes of getting lots accomplished while they are napping! I am grateful for the precious gift of time that I have been given to be with the girls. I am equally grateful for the sacrifices our parents make to come watch the girls so I can get my middle school student and adult interaction ‘fix’ while substitute teachingJ

 A song that sums up my new mommy role, or any role that I am in, is called Let Them See You. My relationship with The Lord is the most important ingredient in my life; and my prayer is that Grace and Kalei would see the love of The Lord through the way that I love them. Ultimately, that is the greatest gift we can give anyone.

 1 John 4:7-12

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. ⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

 Colossians 2:6-7

⁶ So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, ⁷ rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

Let Them See You by JJ Weeks Band

Take away the melodies
Take away the songs I sing
Take away all the lights
And all the songs You let me write
Does the man I am today
Say the words You need to say?

Let them see You in me
Let them hear You when I speak
Let them feel You when I sing
Let them see You
Just let them see You in me

Who am I without Your grace?
Another smile, another face
Another breath, a grain of sand
Passing quickly through Your hand
I give my life, an offering
Take it all, take everything

Let them see You in me
Let them hear You when I speak
Let them feel You when I sing
Let them see You
Just let them see You in me

With every breath I breathe
I sing a simple melody
But I pray they'll hear more than a song
In me, in me

Let them see You in me
Let them hear You when I speak
Let them feel You when I sing
Let them see You

Let them see You in me
Let them hear You when I speak
Let them feel You when I sing
Let them see You
Just let them see You in me
Just let them see You in me
 
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