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 of 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 (yet ever so near) 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 when I hold my children.

As a mother there is much I must teach them, but the greatest of all is love!

(Rewritten for Christian moms / author unknown)