By Katharine Grubb
My daughter Veronica, who is 6, thinks she can do everything.
She can add up to the thousands place, she can read, and she wants to clean the house. She has no concept of fear or hesitation or anything but complete acceptance. At our house, she tries and she’s proud of her accomplishments and if she messes up, it’s OK, she tries again. She has gone from preschooler to serious elementary school student in a very short time and she believes life is just like that---new challenges and new successes. I asked her one morning, “What amazing thing are you going to do today?”
It never occurs to her that she could be less than amazing.
Recently, over the course of three days, I had three different people ask me at different times how I manage to homeschool five children at a time. I told them about my day, what I expect, how the kids like it, and what we’ve accomplished. All three of these women were impressed. It should be noted that they are all homeschooling as well, but none of them have five children. And all of them called me “amazing” or something like that. (And all of them have skills and abilities that make me drop my jaw in bewilderment.) My response to them was modest. I don’t see myself as amazing. I just see a mom trying to get by, doing what she’s called to do with a minimum number of trips to the emergency room. I probably need to see myself in a better light. I should be more like Veronica.
Our Father asks me the same thing I asked my daughter. “What amazing thing are you going to do today?” Funny, He loves me more than I love her. He is as delighted by me as I am by her. Oh, that’s mind-blowing!
I need to stop believing that my day-to-day accomplishments are nothing. I need to believe that God sees them differently. He knows that when I am at my best, when I believe I can’t fail, when I am working in my strengths, when I am fearless and confident, I AM AMAZING. I can do amazing things. Failure or mediocrity or even false modesty should not even be in my vocabulary. After all, they aren’t in Veronica’s.
So, my question to you, dear readers, is this: What amazing thing are you going to do today?
She can add up to the thousands place, she can read, and she wants to clean the house. She has no concept of fear or hesitation or anything but complete acceptance. At our house, she tries and she’s proud of her accomplishments and if she messes up, it’s OK, she tries again. She has gone from preschooler to serious elementary school student in a very short time and she believes life is just like that---new challenges and new successes. I asked her one morning, “What amazing thing are you going to do today?”
It never occurs to her that she could be less than amazing.
Recently, over the course of three days, I had three different people ask me at different times how I manage to homeschool five children at a time. I told them about my day, what I expect, how the kids like it, and what we’ve accomplished. All three of these women were impressed. It should be noted that they are all homeschooling as well, but none of them have five children. And all of them called me “amazing” or something like that. (And all of them have skills and abilities that make me drop my jaw in bewilderment.) My response to them was modest. I don’t see myself as amazing. I just see a mom trying to get by, doing what she’s called to do with a minimum number of trips to the emergency room. I probably need to see myself in a better light. I should be more like Veronica.
Our Father asks me the same thing I asked my daughter. “What amazing thing are you going to do today?” Funny, He loves me more than I love her. He is as delighted by me as I am by her. Oh, that’s mind-blowing!
I need to stop believing that my day-to-day accomplishments are nothing. I need to believe that God sees them differently. He knows that when I am at my best, when I believe I can’t fail, when I am working in my strengths, when I am fearless and confident, I AM AMAZING. I can do amazing things. Failure or mediocrity or even false modesty should not even be in my vocabulary. After all, they aren’t in Veronica’s.
So, my question to you, dear readers, is this: What amazing thing are you going to do today?
Love this! Feel like I've been to a mommy pep rally! ;)
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