If You're Feeling Alone and Hopeless Today — I.N.F.O. For Families

I don't know what I would have done without Sally Clarkson in my life.

If you are a mama buy and READ every one of her books. She blazed the trail in the "keeping it real" department.

That's the number one comment Barrett and I get over and over again: "You are so real!" I will never be a slick, got it all together, perfect communicator/speaker. But I can be REAL. I can be TRUE to my God who has never left me.

Here was scripture in my devotion time today:

Here is a trustworthy saying:
"If we died with him,
We will also live with him.
If we endure,
We will also reign with him.
If we disown him,
He will also disown us;
If we are faithless,
He will remain faithful,
For he cannot disown himself."

-2 Timothy 2 11-13 (NIV)

Thank you Jesus for using very clumsy but real me.

Because I grow weary. The little girl I'm raising wears me out. She's not my genetic code. She is "fearfully and wonderfully made" and is going to be a strong woman of God. (I imagine she will be a wife and a mother of many. She is such a nurturing soul.) But parenting her is the hardest thing I've EVER done. I get questioned about my parenting of her even though I managed to raise 4 almost all grown, healthy, educated, God-fearing adults.

Adoption is different. There are many issues I've never dealt with before. Yesterday instead of being upset with her and trying to guide her the right way, I just wept and wept and wept. I couldn't find the words to tell her that she was making bad decisions. I'm so weary.

PLEASE LISTEN to this podcast by Sally Clarkson. I cried this morning thinking of how awesome it would have been to hear Sally's voice on podcasts back when I was raising my first four kids. Instead I "listened to her voice" as I daily read a devotion book she wrote for homeschool moms many years ago.

Listen if you are lonely. (She explains perfectly how it feels to be lonely in leadership.)

Listen if your kid says "mom you always taught us we would be aliens, I just never thought we would feel that way in our church." (But please don't ask my kids which has one said this. It was when they were younger.)

Listen if you feel like nobody gets you.

Listen if you struggle with one or more of your kids.

Listen to be edified and lifted up by my FAVORITE "Titus 2 woman."

(Scroll down to the bottom of the post linked below to listen to the podcast.)

http://sallyclarkson.com/will-i-ever-fit-in-probably-not-a-new-podcast/