Love Notes In My Lunch Box

I love to write these little love notes to my kiddos to remind them I' m thinking of them, or to encourage them with a scripture. I don't always have time to do this tho, and this convicted me today. The scripture of "train a child the way they should go," went running through my mind. Prov. 22:6.
 
I'm not posting this to say, "look at me, aren't I a great mom, don't I have it all together?" Quite honestly I feel like a mess most of the time. I'm the first to admit I'm so far from having it together, and every time I play the "comparison" game I end up losing..So trust me that's not my intention.

I'm posting this to share and encourage other busy mamas. The conviction I feel is usually a prompting or the elbow nudge that I haven't been doing something that I should be doing. It's God's little love note in MY lunch box.

Oh Lord help me to find ways to remind my children of your love. Help me not to get so busy with things of "this world" that I forget to teach my children that they are made for a different world. That you created them uniquely, beautifully, and for a wonderful purpose.  How this world wants to steal our children's innocence If I'm not intentional about "training" them in  the way they should go, this world will. The time is so short that our children are in our home. This parenting thing is hard, hard, hard!! But I know I don't go it alone. Lord help me to train, to equip, and to show my children the way to you. Not just with little notes but with how I live my life. I thank you for the little love notes in MY lunch box.