puzzles

Well big changes are coming to the Moore house that's for sure! We are going to be working on getting two of our kids back home. At first my thought was "noooooooooo". Then sadness. Then anger. Then I got smart and did what I should have done to start with, I prayed. God showed me two things that I had been missing. 1. Why would I not want their mother to get better and be responsible? Why was I only expecting the worst from her? Well the answer is it is very hard to forgive her for the things she has done. It makes things simpler to think that she can't change and care for her babies. How sad the world would be if Jesus found it too hard to forgive us and thought that we were all too far gone to change. Wow! I would be in a lot of trouble right now if he hadn't forgiven me. So with His help I can find forgiveness for her, cause after all "there by the Grace of God go I". She deserves the same second chance I got when He wipe clean my past and how else is she going to know this possible unless someone shows her Christ-like love. Which leads me to point 2. God showed me he has called me not only to witness to children in my home but also the parents that have fallen by the wayside. Due to the process in returning the children it is necessary for me to spend a lot of time with this momma one on one. That equals lots of time to plant a seed. Why have I forgotten this is my responsibility as a christian? Ok God got the message! (once again in a big flashing neon sign) So I am going to suck it up and help repair a family that might have a chance at change. An awesome family member reminded me of an analogy that Priscilla Shire uses. She talks about how life is like a puzzle and when we dump the pieces out in the floor we can try to put them back together but unless you know what the picture looks like we can't put the puzzle together. God is the only one that knows what the final picture is suppose to look like. So we shouldn't try so hard to put thing where we think they should go and let God do it cause He knows how it will all fit together in the end!