A Reason to Write

I just want to take the time to introduce myself first. I am 29, you might as well say 30 lol, and I am the mother of a 2 year old.  Yeah, that should explain it all right there.  I have been married for 7 years to Matthew Chessor, and I have been in the teaching profession for about 7 years.  I will go a head and apologize up front for any typing errors they may occur.  I will probably need an editor for this blog. (LOL)  I am not very good at editing things. Oh, did I mention that I am not very good at writing either. So I never thought that I would be writing something for people to read, but when God lays something on your heart, you should listen and follow him.  So why try to write a blog.  Well, here is why.....

I had a baby 2 years ago and this was a life changing experience as many of you mothers have experienced.  I experienced what they call post-partum for about 6 months of the 1st year of my daughter’s life.  This was a very trying time for me.  I think if I had maybe blogged about it back then, I would have been able to help others who were going through the same thing.  During this time, I had taken off a year of work to be with my child. So boy was I mad at myself because I had this time with my daughter but was very depressed. Now looking back, God knew that I was going to need a year of recovery from this.  So he prepared that time for me to heal through his strength and timing and trusting him.

Then, after that year, I decided to go back to the classroom.  Boy that was a change!  Those of you who know anything about education, it never stays the same.  I mean never.  This is a good thing I guess.  That way we don't get to complacent.  I do sometimes just wish they would give us some time to get use to the something for a while before changing it again.  Anyways,   I had a hard time just adjusting to new standards, and leaving my sweet 1 year old that I had grown attached too. I know many of you mothers feel guilty for leaving your children to go out and work. Well, I had this feeling on top of trying to get use to working again. Needless to say,   I think God was teaching me all year to trust him.  I mean not just trust or to just say that I trust him.  I mean really not WORRY AND TRUST HIM!  That is a huge thing for me.  I have always worried about thing and should not.  So I have just been trying to turn my worries  over to the Lord and Fully Rely on God for all my answers.  So that means I have to let go of worrying.  I still have days that I worry about things, but I feel that because of these valleys the past two years, I have grown in this area.  I am by no means where I need to be, but I am better that I was before.

I was listening to a preacher on the radio the other day and he said that in life we should not try to have success, but that we should be more concerned about the significance in our life.  He said that worldly success will not build up treasures in heaven, but significance will build of treasures and rewards in heaven.  That is my new memo. My ultimate goal is to try and please the Lord and share his word in my everyday life.  I want to be significant in him not successful in the world.  God will give me what the world can’t.  The world will leave you high and dry, but God will never leave or forsake you. So put your so call success in the Lord with significance.     

So this is why I am writing a blog.  I want to help people that may have problems or difficult situations.  Even if it just lifts someone else  up, and  they find comfort knowing that some maybe dealing with the same issues. So, I  may not be good a this whole blog thing, but I just plan to share what is on my heart, my prayers, and my new insights on trusting god.  I may post once a week, once a month,  or just when ever I feel God put something on my heart to share. I have wanted to do this for a long time now, but fear people might think this is silly or weird, but I feel that God has been wanting me to do something to help or encourage other people. People have also encouraged me to do this so here it is.   I do not want myself to get in the way.  I want this to totally be about his work.  We as humans get caught up with our own praise and rewards and do things for selfish reasons.  So I pray that God helps gets the glory for all I do and say. And like I said above, my goal in life is to keep Fully Relying on God more and more each day.

A side note:  I titled this blog FROG because as a teacher and mother of a little girl, I have always like things with little cute frog like characters on it.  So, why not use the word FROG which can stand for Fully Rely on God.