Yesterday my Bible study talked about recognizing and using your spiritual gifts. 🤔🤷 Then it suggested to think of what some people in your life said about you when you were younger. That seemed weird to me because I'm not at all my youthful self anymore. But, I thought of two women (friends mother's) who I knew at different times in my life but they both called me little Suzy homemaker.
I've never felt like I was doing much of anything. But what if being a stay at home mom and a wife IS my thing? Jeff and I both come from divorced homes and have histories of alcohol and drug abuse in our families with little Jesus to be found. What if instead of being a branch on that family tree, we needed to plant a new tree? What if I could just find my purpose and rest in this seemingly simple job instead of reaching for something that isn't my calling.
That all brought me back to something I remember God telling me 20+ years ago that He was calling me out of that to start a new legacy for my family. I'm not sure how I got lost along the way and started looking for something grander but we've all seen the memes that say "your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise." How about more than that those kids will have kids and then they will have kids and how are their lives impacted because of the simple fact that Jeff and Sara Freitag decided to created a stable home founded on Jesus. My name will likely never be in lights but as long as I'm rooted in Jesus there's no end to the lights I can leave behind.
Today, my favorite thing, my spiritual gift, my passion is my family, being a stay at home mama and starting a new legacy for them with my fantastic husband and my Savior!
What is yours? What simple thing do you do every day that is making a bigger difference than you have given yourself credit for? You don't have to run a million dollar company, cure a disease, be a gold medal Olympian, or a movie star to make a big impact in your world. Just love Jesus and be YOU!
"Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms."
1 Peter 4:10
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