Fruit Is Seasonal

"Interesting, joy and all those other lofty characteristics.

Jesus compares them to fruit.

Fruit is seasonal. Fruit ripens. Fruit can miss a season if it frosts at just the right time in the growth process. Fruit flowers then buds then grows and ripens. And it only does this once or twice a year. Maybe that was Jesus’ point.

Maybe He knew how delicious the fruit of joy is, but maybe He also knew how difficult and fleeting it could be for us sorry bunch of humans."

- An excerpt from Joy: Lilacs in the Rain by Amy Sorrells on her Self-Titled blog (Be sure to go read the entire post!)

Answered Prayers

"Sometimes the deepest desires of our hearts are answered years later in unexpected, triumphant ways."

- A quote from Recapturing Our Lost Riches by JoAnne Bennett on her Self-Titled blog

Mommy Guilt

"We compare ourselves to some imaginary mom who only feeds organic food to her children, never loses her temper, has craft time each afternoon and who’s home is always perfectly in order. I’ve never met this person, and if you know her please don’t introduce me.

What’s interesting to me, is that often the situations that leave us feeling the guiltiest aren’t remembered by our children...

...So, here’s my parenting advice: let go of the guilt, love your kids, lean on God..."

- An excerpt from Dealing With Mommy Guilt by Melissa Brotherton on her Self-Titled blog

Don't Grasp At The Shadows

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

- Aesop

What Will They Say?

"...if Abraham Lincoln was right, I’ve got a lot more than dishes and toilets to live up to.

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother," Honest Abe said.

So I wonder: what will my sons say about me someday?

Will they call me an angel?

Or will they ask the angels why they got stuck with me?

Will they say I helped them be who they hoped to be?

Or will they just hope they don’t resemble me?

- An excerpt from The Non-Profit Trepidation of Mother's Day by Amy Sorrells on her Self-Titled blog (be sure to go read the rest of this fabulous post)