"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?"
The Christmas Carol is such a good story. Tonight I saw the play on stage for the first time in my life. It's about a man who had good reasons to be both unhappy and happy. He chose to be unhappy. He chose to "bah humbug" everything that could have caused him joy because he was so busy and so belligerent that he bullheadedly buried everything that could have helped him be happy.
I'm still thinking about the conversation I had with my sister a couple of weeks ago. We talked about mothering and about happiness. Sometimes mother "business" can get in the way of real mothering--the real nurturing, teaching, disciplining, leading and inspiring. And, most importantly, it can get in the way of letting my children know how happy they make me.
Link by link, day by day, we forge the life we live. What patterns do my children know? How happy do they see me? Do they know how important they are? Do they feel their great worth in God's plan. Do they understand it is a plan of happiness? Do I? I do. And I can't let anything distract me from sharing that with them--day by day, link by link.
ONCE upon a time, in a land not so far away, there was a queen. She lived a lovely life in her cottage sized castle with her husband and their three sons: Atrain the brave-heart; Jdog the jolly; and Doodle, the daring baby. The queen had a good heart, and she loved her boys with every piece of it. Every day in Frandsenland she works and plays and does her very best NOT to be evil. Sometimes she succeeds. This is her diary.
I LOVE this post. Yes, I'm still thinking about that conversation too. It's in my top ten of last year. :) I have had a pink sticky note on my computer monitor ever since then that says this: "I want my children to know that they make me happy." -M.J.F. Ry-pie sometimes reads it out loud, complete with initials, when he's in the vicinity. We should talk again. :)
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