Check Your Attitude at the Door

Check your attitude at the door!  WHAT?!?  Understand that your attitude is everything!  Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you react to it (Chuck Swindoll).  Whether you are starting a new family or blending a family, stepping into the role of “Mom,” is not easy, but it can be quite rewarding if you learn how to enjoy the better moments and dismiss the ugliness that you will encounter. 

To do this, you must start with your attitude.  What are you intentions?  Are you taking on this role only because you wanted to marry their dad?  Or do you want to honor God by raising followers of Christ?  Stop and ask yourself, how do you want to feel about the new additions to your family?  Are they are a nuisance, a thorn in your side, a job, or are they a gift, a joy, and a blessing?  If you begin your journey excluding your new children from your heart, you will never be able to take back the years of pain you will cause them, nor will you ever receive the true blessing God has in store for you.

“Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin.” -1 Peter 4:1

“Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.” – Mark 13:12

Understand that this journey will be ROUGH!  It will so hard you will want to RUN from your marriage!  In the end, you will be beyond blessed and thankful you stuck around!

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