Grass always greener.....

Hello fellow blogger! Wow is it the middle of April already? Where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday I was going to the ladies conference at our church and posting all the table pictures. I think the older that I get the faster that my life goes by. Why is that I wonder because when I was a kid the days were sooooooooooooo slow. I wanted to be a grown-up so bad. Now that I am.....I miss the days of being a kid. I guess as humans we always think the grass is always greener on the other side. Sad but true.

Sunday was Easter Sunday..........the best Sunday celebration ever. Our Christ and Lord Jesus died for our sins and was raised from the dead. He conquered death and gives us hope for a life everlasting with him. Awe I just love that. He gives me comfort. Anyway this Easter my hubby and I had no plans for the day besides going to sunrise service to celebrate this day. I was kind of bummed about that because it made me miss my kids and grandkids. They all live so far away and we can't get together for holidays like other families. It's at holiday times that this fact seems to surface in my head. I start remembering days gone by when they were little and all the fun we use to have. I realize God has graced me to only remember the good times for the most part. Because really life isn't all good...there is a lot of trials and a lot of hard times when we are parents trying to raise our children with Christian values in a secular world. I had my mini cry, prayed and then got over my self. This is an example of the "the grass is always greener on the other side" thought. I do this every holiday.

However when I do get to see my kids and grandkids I realize after about 3-4 days I am ready for life to go back to the way it is. I love them and they me but we each have our own lives that we are living. We have differences and don't always agree anymore. I am not the boss of my children at this point. yea! I relish the time I have with my family and I soak up all they have to say. I store it up to bring out another time and remember....and maybe have a mini cry again and then move on.

In 1 Timothy 6:6 it says.............. But godliness with contentment is great gain. Then in Hebrews 13:5 it says......Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

There is no greater gift then to have the Lord with you and to know that he will never leave me or forsake me. Even when I boo hoo and think gosh I wish............this or that....He is there beside me. He is my contentment. In Him I find contentment. With Him I find His contentment.

I realized (again) this weekend that the grass isn't always greener on the other side even if I sometimes think it is. It is a blessing to be content where we are right now at this moment in time. I thank God that he allows me to have memories of the good times with my children. I am thankful that I had all three of them and was able to love them with everything I had in me. I didn't always say the right things, or do the rights things, or even model the right values to them but I did love them........very much. I have to pray for God's grace in this area alot. Contentment is a gift from God and I am so thankful for that gift. So until next time fellow bloggers....be content and be blessed.