If I live in a house of spotless beauty with everything in its place, but have
not love, I am a housekeeper-not a homemaker.
If I have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not
love, my children learn cleanliness-not godliness.
Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny
fingerprints on a newly cleaned window.
Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk.
Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the
trials.
Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks
with the toddler, runs with the child, then stands aside to let the youth walk
into adulthood.
Love is the key that opens salvation's message to a child's heart.
Before I became a mother I took glory in my house of perfection.
Now I glory in God's perfection of my child. As a mother, there is much I must
teach my child, but the greatest of all is love.
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