3.10.2010

affirmation and a necklace

First off, thank you to all the sweet women who commented on my last post. I debated about whether this was the right place to ‘journal’ and I think after reading your comments, it was.  After I pressed ‘publish’ I said a prayer that somehow my total honesty would make some sort of impact on someone and that ultimately God would be glorified.  I hope that both have occurred.

Sometimes I just need to write out my thoughts and process through things so that I can get past it, so thank you for being my listening audience. It seems like this idea of unrealistic expectations is something that I am not the only one struggling with which, believe me, feels good. 

I was doing my bible study last night {yes, night, not morning like I thought I should do} and it put into words just what I needed to hear. Paul writes:

“To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me,

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

That is good, yes?

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On a completely different note, I am not really a jewelry girl. I generally wear my wedding ring {my great-grandmother’s and I love it} some fake diamond studs, a watch and this:

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About two years ago, I searched and searched for tiny charms that I could have my boys’ initials engraved on.  It was hard to find such little ones, but etsy came through for me. 

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When I got the package in the mail I cried. They were perfect. One little charm for each of my darlings.

Once we named Audrey, I placed my order {kathrynriechert.com} and was delighted once again when I received the tiny package.

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So now my necklace is complete.

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My FOUR darlings.

I sort of wish it spelled out something cooler than ebma, but we weren’t really thinking about my necklace when naming our first three {it was, ridiculous as it sounds, a consideration when naming baby no. 4 – that’s just kind of how I am}.

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It is petite and makes me happy.

I highly recommend Kathryn … shop her etsy site here.

6 comments:

  1. Love your necklace! I've been looking for something to wear around my neck to symbolize my girls. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Pretty awesome how the Lord speaks to us through scripture at the perfect time. 2 Corinthians 12:10 is one of my absolute FAVORITES!

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  3. I have to tell you how inspiring your blog posts are and your honesty puts a lot of things for me inperspective as well. Thank you for admitting the things you do as we all as mothers try to be the best we can be. . .and I too strive for perfection, fall short (in my eyes only), and wish for time like no other. Please keep the posts coming as I look forward to hearing from you and your creative side too!!!

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  4. Love the necklace! Perfect. I have four babies too, & I need one of those! :)

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  5. Emily,
    Thank you for your recent posts...I could have written the "should" post myself... I too feel like I fall short of perfection in SOOOO many areas of my life and NEED to realize that no one is perfect and that I need to focus MORE on all of the blessings that I have in my life (my wonderful husband and my beautiful girls). Your blog is inspiring to me...THANK YOU!

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  6. Walt says that you can rearrange the initials to make "mabe"...("maybe")! So what do you think? I guess 'maybe' isn't really in the equation anymore, though. :)

    xo mom

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