Busy Mom of 5

All families go through hard times in their life at some point or another. With my experience during these times I feel that its best to try and think positive and move forward with each day. I pray hard for strength and grace to do and be what God would have me to be through the whole ordeal. I also try to protect my family as much as I can. I feel children these days already face many hurtles in life with peer pressure, dating, bullies, homework, and I could go on and on. I feel that keeping as much from them as I can helps them to be able to deal with things in their own life. They don’t need to be burdened down with grown-up things as well. I have also learned that these hard times God allows us to go through do in the end make us stronger and much better people. I learn from the battles we go through so that maybe I can be a help to someone else down the road that may go through the same thing I did. These battles are not a way for us to be punished at all they are simply life lessons to be learned and these tough times will make us happier in the end, and a blessing in the future to someone else. We look at these battles the wrong way, in my opinion. I know no matter how you look at it they are still hard to go through but things must be hard in order for us to see what we should learn from it. So when life gets tough for you and your family find the life’s lesson it the whole ordeal, learn from it, and save it for a time someone else will need the same help.   :)