On pg 5 Elisabeth wrote: "We must pray and act." I feel this is a very powerful sentence.
She also stated on that same page: "I want to love with a special love those whose ..... ideas separate them from me." I find that my own kids have their own ideas about religion most of which I did not teach them. I pray daily for God to heal my family beginning with me. He sure has his work cut out for Him!
On pg 6 Elisabeth says a woman often lacks true judgement. I pray often that I may be able to discern correctly everything I encounter.
Elisabeth warns us to basically guard our soul. It is extremely vulnerable. We need to "feel God" (pg 7) in everything we do (by our deeds). We need an "inner transformation" (pg 8); "we must ask God to fill us with an intense charity."
At the bottom of pg 11 and top of pg 12 Elisabeth lists everything we should do as a woman. It feels like I do a lot of what she suggests, but I often wonder at what point do my children take advantage of me. I help raise their children and help with their finances. At what point do we as parents say no. I try to increase my intelligence by reading healthy and inspirational readings such as this book. I offer everything up in prayer and ask for help from above, always. I try to stay cheerful and happy; I always end my petition's with "not my will, but Your's be done".
On pg 15 Elisabeth prays "how can one love if one does not love through Thee?" I feel this is very powerful!
The first and second paragraphs on pg 19 sums up everything I have discussed above. Elisabeth's life was very much like ours, with trials and tribulations. Yet she always turns to God.
This also struck me.....On pg 15 Elisabeth prays "how can one love if one does not love through Thee?" That is a big concern I have for two of our three children. If they do not love thru God, they are basing their love on man which God's Word warns us against lots of times. So if their friends or running discipline or whatever.....fails them, then what will they have to "hang onto"!!
ReplyDeleteCarol, I also underlined the lines you quoted and i think we all struggle with how much to do for our grown children. Our son and his family wanted to join us this weekend but don't have gas money. I wanted to say we will cover it but I thought, no! We have helped with important things but, as much as I would love to see them all, I felt that they now have to budget for travel. (We are actually doing a landscaping job that we had not bugetted for so we are also stretched with all the traveling we have been doing.) May the Lord guide us on the big and small challenges of daily life.
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