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Don t lose your sparkle quotes5/28/2023 ![]() All I can do as your mom, your best friend, and your guider is be there.Īnd one day when your hand is too big to hold, when you can get the Marmite lids open, and when your toe no longer hurts, just know, I’m here. I wish I could jump them for you, but one of the things you will learn is things don’t always work that way. Some of which, you will learn to jump on your own. Sometimes, even though we don’t want it to, it can throw us hurdles. Please don’t let the world change you.Īs we grow, my baby, we learn. You give hugs so warm, I wish I could hold you forever. We are who you trust, who you come to when you hurt your toe, or if you can’t get the lid off the Marmite. I look at you, my dearest daughter, and I can’t help but wonder where this life will take you. RELATED: Dear Daughter, Be the Girl Who Lives Out Love The energy she brings, the light she provides -I hope she will take this everywhere she goes. I saw her steps turn into bounds, and bounds turn into leaps. Her giggle is something so contagious, it makes everyone in the room burst into laughter. I see her eyes glisten when she talks about something she loves. ![]() Since then, I have watched a little girl grow, right before my eyes. Until I held you in my arms for the very first time. People say time flies, and I didn’t really know how much it did fly until I had you. Nothing is more bittersweet than seeing you grow. “Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath.I wish I could freeze this time, right where we are now. As Romans 5:5 says, this “hope does not disappoint us.” Hebrews 6:19 says of the practice of hope: “We have this hope as an anchor of the soul, firm and secure.” And when we practice it-praying, reflecting, singing-we too, can expect the sparkle to return to our eyes. Praise is simply declaring that God’s track record of faithfulness in the past is the pre-evidence of his immutable character tomorrow.ĭavid practiced hope-and before knew it, the sparkle had returned to his eyes. David began to sing of the mercies and goodness of God. Therefore, since God had been faithful in David’s past, it only made sense to trust him in the present. Next, he went back into the memory banks of his past experience with God and recalled that God had never failed him-not even once ( v. What did David do to pull off that turn around? Well, to begin with, he went to God-he prayed. But in the last two verses, his focused has shifted to the overwhelming mercy and grace of God-and it changed everything. In the first two verses of this six-verse psalm, David was focusing on the overwhelmingly bad things in his life that were dragging him down. That is why we’ve got to choose daily to put our hope in the promises of God. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 13:12 that “hope deferred makes the heart sick.” But when hope is practiced, whether in marriage specifically or life in general, there is tremendous motivation not only for growth and change, but for that winsome radiance to dominate our personality in a way that both elevates our moods and is consistently visible to those we are around. Here’s the thing: Underneath the failure to endure and the quitting, there was the loss of hope. ![]() Once that belief set in, there was a loss of motivation, surrendering of perseverance, and giving up. But I would venture to guess that these folks have also developed the ability to practice hopefulness in the midst of all the negative stuff that might send a less hopeful person into the tank.Īaron Beck, a leading marriage researcher, found the number one belief that kills marriages is that a spouse will never change. Well, it could be that any or all of the above factors contribute to their winsome approach to life. Restore the sparkle to my eyes, or I will die.”ĭo you ever wonder why there are some whose eyes just always seem to sparkle? Is it because they have such a naturally sunny disposition? Is it because things are continually going their way? Is it because they are just so much better at life that they outshine the average person? What is it about these people? ![]()
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