November 18, 2014
janetwlane
A Missionary Kid's Grandmother, Communication, Extreme Grandparenting, Following God's Call, Grandchildren living far away!, pray for missionaries on their birthdays, The sufficiency of God's grace, Uncategorized
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- Happy Birthday my little man!
My grandson turns two today.
My trial in all this is not being able to be with him on this happy day.
My blessing is that I got to video chat with him this morning,
and without being prompted he called me by my grandmother’s name. We gave each other hugs and kisses, played peek a boo, and he even tried to feed me some of the cereal he was eating–all thanks to this wonderful invention called Facetime!
All along I have prayed that God would make up for the distance between us by blessing our relationship with a closeness that would transcend the distance. Happy moments like we enjoyed today, inspire me to believe that is indeed God’s plan!
So I will resist, by God’s grace, the temptation (fiery dart*) to feel sorry for myself at being so far away from my little guy on his birthday!
(What good would that do anyway? It’s a fiery dart meant to make me miserable and create a burden for my son and his family. Nope, that’s just not going to happen!).
Instead, I will reject such thoughts and replace it with the ‘Truth thought’ of rejoicing that his parents love God and are willing to be obedient to His call upon their lives and make the most of every bit of communication that God blesses us with.
My heart is full of joy and there’s simply no room for anything else!
*For more on fiery darts check out my blog:
or my book entitled:
Fiery Darts: Satan’s Weapon of Choice.
You can order it from my fiery dart blog. Blessings!
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