Raised in His Love

"Leaving your baby to cry alone between 4 hour feeding slots, encourages a sense of security to develop by means of a routine.

By relating to and responding to your baby's individual needs you will nurture, her confidence and build a flexible routine that suits both the child and it's parents.

Anthropological study's have revealed that babywearing and co-sleeping is what the human baby expects. To ignore this fact could compromise your child's emotional development."

There are many manuals, many books and much information on the subject of raising children. There are facts, figures and statistics.

There are correlations and contradictions.

But there always seems to be something missing.

Why are we still searching for the best way to raise our children?

It can be so easy to become numb to an overload of information. Besides having four little ones means that there is little time for to much reading anyways.

Probably that is a good thing.

During the times of dischord and anxiety it is all I can do to cling to God in the way that a child clings to a parent. When I am weak he is strong indeed.

I read His word for insight so that I may understand this calling of mine, to be a mummy to four little souls belonging to Him and brought into my life by Him, with more clarity and purpose.

In replacement for my life... the hours and moments of my days, sometimes so fragile, frail and falible there is the sweetest kind of grace. It touches the edges of the quivering morning light, that aches within and embraces all the tears that sting tierd eyes. .

I try to learn from He who is Father to us all.

I pray.

I make so many mistakes. I hold my hands up so many times in error. How can I be responsible for such precious little lives?

But the truth is that these little lives were God's before they were mine.

The way I raise them shouldn't come from books or even my own perspective.

There is a simplicity behind the complexity of ideas, theories and words I think.

"But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere."-JAMES 3:17 (niv)

"Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray."~ Proverbs 22:6

"And, parents, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord."~ Ephesians 6:4

"People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. But Jesus called for them and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."~ Luke 18:15-17

My children teach me to see God's majesty through their wonder filled eyes. A small lense can relflect great things you know.

The miracles of the every day. The sacred moments. The tiny details filled with grace.

Step by step we learn to walk together. We bring eachother toward Him.