When you hear this word do you smile? run away? jump back in fright? Sometimes I do all three. But at the end of each day I thank God for my family.

Some believe that having children is a burden. Guess what? It is! But so is marriage, having to work to put food on the table, paying taxes or even exposing your heart to to love someone else who doesn’t always love you back the way you NEED. There are some things we have to be willing to fight for and endure for a greater good.

Even though my husband and I ‘have our moments’, and I ‘occasionally’ yell at my kids- I wouldn’t trade my family with anyone else [have you ever seen wife swap? They get this great revelation after spending two in another person's home].

If I could just REMEMBER this [great love I have for them] I would never fail myself, my children or my husband. But we are all human, and subject to error. We are also subject to hurting ourselves as well as those we love [whether intentionally or unintentionally].

Despite it all I have to trust God that if I continue to lean on Him- everything will work out in the end. Fear puts my mind in a hurricane of ungodly thoughts, that, when over, I find myself in a dark place. God is light. God is life. God is the source of anything good that I could ever be…

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