Understanding Significance

How beautiful is this?  

As hard as it is to be a single parent, as much as I feel like I'm lacking in what I can offer my kids...they're better off with me than without me.

THAT's a whole new thought. I have become a person who makes a positive difference in my kids lives no matter how much I stumble through it. 

I make a difference at my job. Some days I may or may not be a better employee than others - but overall- to the whole program and to the students...what I do really makes a difference.

I matter to my grandma - even if I only see her once or twice a week - it matters. I matter to my mom and dad and my siblings...even if they are freaking dysfunctional. It's funny how I was always so incredibly wounded, always the one who carried all the pain in the family, and now - where my family is concerned...I have somehow become the emotionally strong one-even grounded.

I make a difference in people's lives. People who have watched me grow, seen me struggle, fall, get back up, keep going, holding on. People who have seen God at work in me and in my life. People who I have been able to love and be present for, no matter how imperfectly, because of what God has done in me.

2 Corinthians 3:18 says, "And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him."

Comments

[Chris]

Hey - just a quick note that your verse reference is incorrect. I think it should be 2 Corinthians 3:18. :)

[Kathy Guy]

So noted and corrected. I'm glad I have smart readers! Thanks Chris!