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THE BEST Mama

I have the best Mama in the world.  (Really, I do!)  She is 100% behind me, in anything and everything I've done and is completely supportive of the direction I've chosen to live my life.  I am so thankful for that.

The other morning, I woke up not feeling quite like myself.  I'm sure we've all had those days where we're a little unsure of ourselves, feeling not quite as confident, not as smart, not as pretty, not as useful- moments where we are unsure we've made the right choices and/or decisions with our lives.  I started to re-evaluate myself and came out with one BIG sigh. 

I went to work, opened my email and had just received "Today's Word with Joel & Victoria".  If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a daily bible verse and commentary from Joel Osteen and his wife, Victoria.  They are always meaningful in some way or another, but that day in particular, I knew that that particualr verse was meant for me.  It read...

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
(Ephesians 2:10)

I think sometimes we forget that God made us for a specific purpose.  Although I may have flaws (like all of us do!), those flaws are what make me uniquely me.  (Sounds like a self help book, right?)  The point is, I can only try to be a better person and hope that being just that leads me in the direction that He has always intended for me to go and one day be.

After reading "Today's Word with Joel & Victoria", I emailed Mama, thanking her for emailing me this verse because she, of course, is the one who emails these bible verses to her children, in hopes of instilling more faith and hope in Jesus Christ.  (It worked!)  I wanted to let her know I really needed that encouragement from the scripture.  She asked why I needed this particular scripture and I told her that I wasn't feeling quite like myself and a bit insecure.  My next email response from Mama said...

"...don’t worry too much nang. You are one those lucky people who has almost everything. First, you are married to a nice, handsome responsible guy that loves you the way you are or else he’s not going to marry you. Most of all God loves you because he made you so pretty, intelligent with a dashing personality and now you turned to be a good wife and soon a good mom (I know for sure). Just count your blessings nang and you’ll see you are so far ahead than anyone else. Don’t stress about it...and you have to pray...love you so much..."

And I reallly needed THAT!

Do I have THE BEST Mama or what!?!?!  Just when you think you're all grown up and don't need the help, she is there, physically, emotionally and mentally.  What an amazing woman.

God Bless,
Kat

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