The Resolution for Women - Every Bite Counts

I am currently reading The Resolution for Women by Priscilla Shirer based on the movie Courageous.  I want to document the journey I go through as I read it, so I am going to attempt to post for every section I read.  First, I have to say that I did not seek out this book.  My husband and I watched the movie when it was out in theaters and I secretly wished that it had touched more on mothers.  As I walked through Walmart the other day, I was thinking that I needed a book that would really engage me.  And that's when I walked by an end-cap filled with this book and also the one for men.  I truly hope God uses this book to change me and that others will be able to see and feel that change.

Today I read about being content in the moment.  I had never thought of it this way, but Priscilla explained that she doesn't have many memories because she spent most of her life just looking forward to the next stage. 

"I recognized that by rushing through life, I'd been subtly devaluing those around me and experiences I was involved in, not appreciating the importance and significance they bring to my life at this very moment, not grasping my responsibility for holding dear and treating well these gifts God has entrusted to me.  Instead of embracing the privilege of being a blessing to my husband, my children, my friends, and others, I'd been quietly communicating that I wanted them to change and speed up, to get busy being somebody else, someone who's more in line with what I want and need, to hurry along to a place where they could make me happier than they currently do."


I went through most of my life trying to get to the next stage too.  Until, all of a sudden, I realized my kids are half grown.  They will never be babies again.  They will never need me to tie their shoes again.  They will never graduate from kindergarten again.  And there will be a day when they will never live with me again.  That's why with BubbaJ, I have been living in the moment.  Enjoying every stage as he goes through it.  Because as Priscilla said, "Only for these fleeting moments would my children talk, look, and act exactly like this.  And if I chose to hurry through them in an attempt to avoid the parts I didn't like, I'd simultaneously miss all the things I did like about this season."