If you don’t follow Lindsay Boever of My Child, I Love You on Instagram I want to tell you to go read her posts from this week. I have long admired her most inspiring mother. Here she shares some of the hardest hitting, truest truths about marriage and family and who would like to see us fail at both.
The little Mother Love book does not mince words when composing prayers. In one, we beseech heaven:
“Preserve us, Almighty God, from the deceits of the evil spirits, and from the malicious or perhaps well-meant though foolish language and counsels of silly people.”
Friends and I were remarking recently that it is entirely possible for someone to win a debate using a seemingly airtight argument and yet still be wrong. Of course the inverse is also true. In the end this is not about looking good or being right in anyone else’s eyes. It’s about the messy work of saving our souls. Odds are good it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
“I have noticed that we all get to experience each of the sufferings our Lord did with His apostles - betrayal, abandonment, isolation, grief. If you haven’t yet, you will at some point in your lifetime. It might be through your spouse, your child, or another person.
It’s how we share in the Cross.”
God bless your efforts to know, love, and serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
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