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Life Lessons

If you’re like me, when something happens in your life, you run off to react and then settle back into autopilot until the next big event happens.  Along the way, people more experienced at life try to give you advice about these occasional crisis.  Some of the information is useful, but other pieces mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to you at the time.  Later, when you aren’t busy stomping out fires, you’ll recall bits and pieces of valuable information. Read more…

Ecclesiastes 1:9 for Moms

While in my very early 20’s, I was told things like “Sabrina, anyone can have a car note”, when my face would light up over a nice car, “It’s not always what you put in your pocket” when my face didn’t light up over a 3% raise on a $20,000 salary and “You do realize you’re grown and you have to take up for yourself?” when I shared with my mother how mean I was being treated by some of the older women at work. Even more recently, I’ve heard “Just keep living” more than I’d care to count. As I have gotten older, the wisdom in all of these phrases have been revealed. I, in turn, want to be as valuable to others as these women have been to me.

We all, at different times, experience situations that we’d rather not have to deal with but Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) says “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”. For me, this means someone, somewhere has gone through what I am going through and, as a result, they have the resources I need to get through it. As a mom, it’s been comforting to know that there are answers, I just need to find them. Hopefully, you are comforted in this as well.