MAKE YOUR VOICE LOUDER

     "He said I'm not good at running!"

     "She told me I can't play with them!"

     "They laughed at me when I was singing!"

     It doesn't matter where we live or where we go, life is not always easy when you're a kid (or an adult, either).  Day in and day out, other kids are planted smack-dab in the middle of the path that our kids have to walk down.  Criticism drips off the tongues of their peers -- in many shapes and forms, life can be just plan hard for them.

     How do we offset all the negative that our children absorb in a day?

     First, we need to be sure the message they get from home speaks value, worth and merit. 

     Second, we need to feed them with more than flighty compliments . . . they need to be nourished with God's truths. 

     Third, we need to be sure we are heard above the din of discouragement they face.

     How do we get our voices louder????  How can we be heard over the roar in their heads????

     When I think of being louder, I think of ensuring our God-given, motherly voices of encouragement are heard above the shouts of cruel voices that echo at our children every day.

     Whether they are testing out their singing voice and an older sibling laughs at them or they are on a playground and a scruffy bully tells them they're puny -- we have a job to do!  Our voices need to be in our children's heads to help them ward off these lies that threaten to plant themselves within our children's hearts.

     The enemy will do whatever it takes to tear down our children and he will use whoever is available with the words they'll happily spit out of their cruel mouths.

     I'm so thankful, that as a mom, I have the privilege of being louder than all these other voices.

     The role we play, as moms, is of utmost importance.  We have to see that our LOUD VOICE in the ears of our children is one of  the most beautiful tasks we get to carry out.  Sharing words of hope when they feel low.  Sharing truths from God's Word of their value when they feel rubbish-like.  Sharing arms to hold and ears to listen, when their hearts are needing to be mended. 

     Don't ever let the enemy tell you that your voice isn't important in the life of your child!  Even on the days that our chidlren may "pretend" they don't care what we say, they do!  No one else is going to encourage them like we will!  Get your voice heard and see it as the divine assignment that it is!

"Don't be intimidated by all this

bully talk.  You are worth more

than a million canaries."
Matthew 10:31