Leaving My Mark

I have a confession to make. It's a deep dark secret that I have been holding onto for years. Not really, but I got your attention. If you ever randomly drop by my house at any time you will see that this is not a secret, but indeed a fact. Most days my house is not in the greatest shape. Ok, a lot of the times it's a wreck. There, I said it.

I have two young daughters, so sometimes this makes cleaning house an exercise in futility. As soon as I get it put away, they get it out again, plus some. They tear through the house at lightening speed leaving anything and everything in a trail of chaos behind them. My four year old in particular has, well, lets just say, a special way of leaving her mark in every room in the house. She leaves her dirty clothes, shoes and towels on the floor, drags all of her toys and books out and just leaves them everywhere and she drops crumbs of food or spills her drink all over the place. I can literally walk into EVERY room in this house and know she has been there. She is extremely loud and messy! But that's just who she is. A little bit of me and a little bit of her daddy :-)

As I was hanging up some their clothes in frustration the other morning, a thought occurred to me. Do I leave my mark wherever I go? For that matter, what mark would I leave if I were to leave one. My hope is that I would leave marks of love, joy and peace. Marks of patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness. And marks of gentleness and self-control. Looking over this list, it seems that there are somedays that I don't leave any of these marks. So many days I leave aggravation, frustration and laziness as my mark. Those are the days that tend to be the most pitiful. Nothing gets accomplished and everyone is miserable in the process.

My prayer is that everyday I live, I leave the mark of a life full of Jesus Christ, everywhere I go I leave trails of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-contol behind me and that everyone I meet will see the mark of someone who has been saved by grace and loves the life HE has given her.

Are you leaving your mark? What mark are you leaving behind you?

Much Love,

~Kazia~

"But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15