And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. – 1 John 4:16
I read a devotion today about a book called LOVE YOU FOREVER, by Robert Munsch. …
The book begins with a mother singing her little one a lullaby:
I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
As long as I’m living,
My baby you’ll be.
Now the book is a story of a mother and her feelings throughout her child’s life. A crying baby, to a trouble making toddler, to a severally stubborn adolescent, to a complete crazy teenager.
I could not help but to walk in her shoes through out this book. When my little girl was born I could not lay her down at all ….. she had colic and I had to walk and walk her….night and day. Then when she begin to walk I began to think that no was the only English word. Then when she began her adolescent years she began to become disrespectful…..and totally rude. Then the teenage years hit full force…..she got mixed up with the wrong people doing the wrong things….drugs, alcohol, lying and many many more. I remember just crying on my pillow asking God how could she choose this life. I have taught her about you lived a life that honored you. I may have not been a perfect mother but I was a loving and grace filled mother. What went wrong? How did I mess up????
As I continued reading Robert captured my feelings in this book……..Frustration….confusion…..a broken heart…… and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for my little girl.
The last few days have been rough…actually the last couple of years fighting this battle…… however today I have given her to God. As mother I am sure I will cry, I will hurt, but as a Christian mother I know that God can do what I can’t and He is the only one who can break these bondages that she has.
So I will love her forever,
I will like her always,
As long as I’m living,
My baby she will always be.
Prayers needed,
God Bless
