Seven months....already?

My sweet girl is seven months today.  I know, can you believe it?  Everyone says they grow up fast but I'm seriously having a hard time believing my girl is 7 months old.  At 6 months, Lydia weighed 14 pounds and 4 ounces.  Maybe now she's up to 15 pounds.  She is rolling all over the place, literally.  She rolls from her back to her tummy and her tummy to her back, all. over. the. place!

 She has just within the past week started sitting up.  She is eating everything she can possibly fit in her mouth cereal, fruits, and vegetables and everything she's eaten she's loved!  She has eaten pears, peaches, apples, bananas, avocado, sweet potatoes, carrots, squash, peas, and green beans.  I think that's all.  She's still not a great sleeper at night, but we're working on it.  

Being a mama to this little girl has been much work but much fun!  I just hope we will be able to teach her the important things in life.  We are thankful for you Lydia Ashby Faulk, and our family wouldn't be the same without you.  Glad you joined our family seven months ago today.  We love you!

Jesus, help me as I spend my days, all day, every day with this child, your child.  Help me to show her You in all things and help the love, discipline, structure, and instruction we give her point her to the most important thing: obedience to You.

A Mother's Prayer


God, give me wisdom to see that today is my day with my children.
That there is no unimportant moment in their lives.
May I know no other career is as precious,
No other work so rewarding,
No other task so urgent.
May I not defer it nor neglect it,
But, by thy Spirit, accept it gladly, joyously, and by thy grace realize
That the time is short and my time is now,
For children won’t wait!
-Helen M. Young

You know those days where inadequacy keeps showing up?

Lately I've been having all sorts of self doubts and insecurities that keep creeping up on me.  While I'm going to have to do some internal examining to figure exactly what I am fearing that is causing me to feel insecure, inadequate and doubting myself, I think it's just incredibly personal of the Holy Spirit to have these two words in the scriptures that I read today,


"Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared." ~Proverbs 3:25-26


"From the LORD comes deliverance." ~Psalm 3:8


And to think, I almost didn't make time to be still enough to read His word.  His timing could not have been more perfect!  So thankful that He knows me and knows what I need to hear when I need to hear it.