A lot of times we'd be driving to Grandma and Grandpa's and we'd pull up at the catholic church and one of us would run in and grab a bulletin and bring it back in. And we'd just go to Grandma and Grandpa's like we went to church and we never did.
I know that God is trying to teach me that my significance is not based on what is crossed off my to-do list. Putting His plans ahead of my own agenda is much more important and powerful.
Within a three year period, I lost three very influential men in my life. But instead of turning to Christ, I turned 180 degrees away and turned completely into myself.
I always thought I had to be better, do more, push harder to be that "person" that God would OK and I've realized that there's nothing I can do. He loves me anyway.
Here I was, four little guys and just me. We were down to our last fifty cents and one day I came home with the boys and the neighbors had gone out and just filled every cupboard with enough food to sustain us. Looking back now, oh that was so God.