"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." (Psalm 139:13,14)
"For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us." (Romans 12:4-6)
As Rick Warren writes:
“God gave you unique spiritual gifts, a unique heart, unique abilities, a unique personality, and a lifetime of unique experiences so you would make your own unique difference in the world.... Your unique shape does not change. As you go through different stages in life, you may have different expressions, but your shape demonstrates itself very early and continues with you for a lifetime. If you were pulling pranks as a little child, you'll probably still be pulling pranks at 85. If you were wheeling and dealing in third grade at recess, trading marbles, when you're in the rest home you'll probably be wheeling and dealing in bed pans. It's in your nature to be a wheeler dealer! If, as a little child, you had a caring heart for hurting animals -- maybe you fixed a cat's paw or a broken wing on a little bird -- the rest of your life you're going to be caring for hurting people and hurting animals. You never get tired of doing what you're shaped to do. Why? God made you that way.”
How has God made your child unique? What is it about their personality that makes you smile? What do they love to do?
Lets continue to Thank God for creating our children wonderfully different, and ask his Holy Spirit to help us identify and nurture their giftings as they grow.
Lucy
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