My daughter is just the dead spit of me and having to see traits of me in her, excites me and also scares me at the same time.
I’m always startled by the thought of the same failures I’ve encountered being repeated in her, but God keeps reminding me as He teaches me through the conduit of my child, that He gave her to me as a duplicate ‘blank’ copy of myself so I can emend my mistakes.
This assurance, gives me strength to push on. There are things I wish I could teach her now but she’s just too young to understand. Instead of saying them, I turn them into prayers.
I keep asking myself, “Where did my mother also get it wrong?” And that gives me two blank sheets to right my wrongs.
I’m reminded of the passage, “my Grace is sufficient for thee”
2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
This passage makes me lean on God more because it makes me believe that I can not do it without His help.
God indeed made us in His image and just us we are like “stubborn” clay in His hands, molding each and every one of us into that beautiful pot He dreams of, without having to give up, so has He given us an opportunity to be creators as well. Accept the challenge of molding the people God entrusts you with into a better version of yourself.
Jasmin Zubida writes….