A High Calling

To me, being a parent is a high calling God has placed on my heart. One of the most important "jobs" God has called me to do, and one of the hardest!

We had always discussed me staying home with our kids, and when I looked into Cavin's eyes for the first time I knew this is what God had created me to do, to be a mom. What an honor and privilege it is that he would trust one of his children, one of his souls to my care. That he would entrust me with loving, guiding, teaching, and leading my child into a loving relationship with Christ. For me, it goes even deeper than my child loving God, I want my child to serve God, to be active in His kingdom and bringing others to know Him.

I want my children know how big God is! I believe this is my high calling, to teach and lead my children towards Christ. To help them truly understand the vastness of who God is, the master artist He is in creating, the humility He endured in becoming human, the sacrifice He gave of living a perfect life yet dying with the world's sins, the grace He gives in loving each human unconditionally, and the jealousy of God when we stray. I want my children to know all aspects of God and to know the power in His story. I want them to choose to love Him, and to desire to serve Him because of how great He is and how small yet significant they are to His kingdom and the continuation of His story.

 This is our high calling, this should be our primary goal as parents, that our children will choose to have an active relationship with Christ.

Everything we do as parents should point them towards Christ.If we can achieve this calling, then their faith becomes the basis of our parenting and how we will help guide them through life until they leave our
While some mom's may envision their children being a doctor, or engineer, or a famous athlete, my heart imagines my boys going to Bible college, serving as a minister, or a missionary, or having a job outside of the church and being one of those youth sponsors who you love as a minister because they consistently serve and want to be involved in every aspect of your ministry.

I feel so often Christians strive to become Christ like in so many ways ,but to me, one of the greatest qualities of Christ is his servant's heart. A quality that so many push aside so easily. Definitely a topic for another day! Matt and I want to raise our children to have a servant's heart, to serve not just with a couple of hours here and there, but to serve with their life, as Christ served with His.