PLAN A MOM – MODEL CHRIST’S GRACE

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Plan A MOM – MODEL CHRIST’s GRACE to Your Kids

“The only trip I go on is a guilt trip.” Have you ever heard that saying?  Have you ever felt that way?

Parenting can bring out the worst in us.  Kids often try our patience and we quickly find out we’re not as patient as we thought.  Or, as we watch our teens or adult children make poor choices, our thoughts may race as we question, “What could I have done differently?”  As quickly as the thought occurs, it’s chased by a million things we could have done differently that would have perhaps benefitted our kids.  

Guilt can haunt us, and there’s only one thing that can chase that demon away – God’s grace. 

LIVE OUT LOUD

The Bible teaches that we all sin.  However, God not only forgives our sin when we come to Him and repent. Psalm 35:2 teaches us that He forgives the guilt of our sin.  In other words, moms, we’re not to go around hanging our heads as if “Condemned” was stamped on our foreheads.  We get it. We’ve all messed up. But God is the forgiver and forgetter.  He moves on with us in grace. We need to exercise the same grace to our kids. 

Are our kids going to mess up and mess up and mess up again? Yes. The question is, are we going to explain to them, “You should not have…. , but I accept your apology and forgive you.  I know what it is to do wrong and be forgiven.  God forgives me when I tell Him that I’m sorry.  And I forgive and love you.”  

LIVE OUT LOUD Verse of the Week – Psalm 32:5  “I acknowledged my sin to You; and my iniquity I did not hide; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’; and You forgave the guilt of my sin.”

“LAND MINE” – GUILT

DEFUSE the landmine of guilt by genuinely confessing and repenting of your sin.  Then, focus on and delight in the sweetness and joy of God’s grace. 

MORE 2 help U in The Plan A MOM in a Plan B World. Available on KINDLE – 1ST CHAPTER  FREE

• LIVE OUT LOUD Checkup, pg 39
  
• LOVE OUT LOUD Questions to Discuss with a Friend/Group, pg 40
  

PLAN A MOM MONDAY TIP

Teach your children to sincerely confess their sins to God.

7 “Grace Tips from a Plan A MOM in a Plan B World,” page 37. 

PLAN A MOM PRAYER

Father, thank You for the sweetness, delight, and joy of grace. Thank You for removing the guilt of my sin. I love You and praise You!  Help me not to hold things over my children’s heads, but to extend grace to them as You’ve extended it to me. 

BECAUSE IT’S IMPORTANT TO KEEP A SENSE OF HUMOR! (Send me your kid funny story to share!)

When Sean was almost four, he was entertaining himself so well in his room that I, his naive and unsuspecting mom, decided to enjoy a cup of tea and a few pages of the novel of the month.  I say novel of the month because as any mother of two preschoolers knows there are about thrity seconds in each day when you can actually put together enough brain cells to understand anything written above a three-year old comprehension level. 

Anyway, things had been perhaps a little too quiet, so when Sean came into the kitchen beaming with pride and led me to his room, I have to admit feeling a little fear and trepidiation. When we reached the threshold of his sanctuary, my precious little artist threw his hands in the air and said, “Look Mommy!” He had used a screw to etch his name into the headboard of his bunk. 

What could I say? He was filled with innocent joy at his masterpiece. While some might see what Sean had done as defacing a piece of furniture, to me it was his four-year-old way of trying to please his mom. 

Don’t you know God must get a good laugh out of our peculiar attempts to please Him? Aren’t you grateful that He knows exactly where we are in our spiritual growth process?” – Kellie Kendrick

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See you next week! Til then, practice grace.

Love, 

Debbie