Fellowship is important!

No matter how old you are, who you choose for friends makes a difference in your life. Who you choose to get advice from not only affects you, but it affects your marriage and your children.

Ladies, if you choose friends that are critical and contentious, if they gossip and neglect their husband and children to ‘find themselves’, then I can almost promise you that you too will be tempted to do the same.

If bad company corrupts good morals,

then we have to believe that good company encourages virtue!

The ladies I am closest to, the ones I can trust to be honest enough to push me closer to Christ, are the ones I attend church with. These ladies will not quote Dr. Phil to me or tell me to check out Oprah’s reading list.

I am so thankful that my daughters have so many Godly women who pour into their lives, women who will encourage them to live lives to serve God and reject cultural lies, women that will help teach them to love.

I am so thankful that the younger girls are welcomed and encouraged to sit along side the older women and learn. I love that they are learning from women who love God and embrace family life.

Hopefully my daughters will stand firmly on my shoulders and be way ahead as they start their adult lives, especially if/when they marry. I started my married life ‘knowing’ my husband would make me fulfilled…HA! I had so much to learn about marriage… about love…

I am so thankful that my daughters have girls that will encourage them in righteousness…they are all learning this together, each having their own strengths and weaknesses, holding each other accountable.

Today our ladies met for brunch and to discuss the book, Loving the Little Years. Although I am past this stage as a parent, I want to be able to encourage others, especially my children and grandchildren one day. I sat in this fellowship, looking at our young girls and admiring their eagerness to learn how to love little ones. My heart was overjoyed on the drive home as I listened to both of my girls discuss how convicted they were over certain topics. We should always be learning how to love better.

I highly recommend this book, it is a fast, humorous read with lots of wisdom tucked in it’s pages.

Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches

I challenge you to find friends that will encourage you in righteousness, friends that will not only be a friend to you, but to your family also. I am so thankful my friends in their 40′s, love my kids enough to tell them how it is when they need it! If you live in an area that is void to good fellowship (and there is no perfect situation), then read good books and good blogs. Listen to sermons and lectures online. Ask God to lead you to friends and fellowship that will glorify Him.