A Soft Answer ...

The weeks have flown into the next and before I have realized .. here it is Spring! The season of renewal and fresh beginnings. I have taken some weeks off to get my mind focused on priorities .... no, not blogging and status updates ... but my family; my husband and girls. The result with my girls has been tremendous! Calmness in the house, they are not battling for my attention .... all wonderful things that I am daily thankful for!

We have also been focusing as a family on the verse, 'a soft answer turneth away wrath...'

How many times have I snapped and had a hard answer to a very simple question?! I shudder to think at the answer if I was being completely honest. 

As moms, we have those little eyes on us all the time, watching our reactions, observing how we handle fear, anxiety, joy, sorrow .... the list goes on! And as those little ones grow and mature, they will take many of our examples with them into their adolescents and adulthood, namely the way they face everyday situations. Do they yell in response, or keep their cool remembering that verse they learned as a child and saw lived out in their homes by their parents.

I find myself throughout the day reminding myself, as well as the girls, 'a soft answer.'

Who wouldn't want to turn away wrath (anger, bitterness)? If we speak lovely to people we will be amazed at how that draws the 'lovely' out of them. 

Daily I find myself falling before God and pleading with Him to make me a mom who has a soft answer. And to raise up that desire in my girls! The challenges are great, yes. But, we have a Great God who, through the power of the Holy Spirit, works in us!!! 

May we all determine that we will be women and families with a soft answer!