Second rate Mama

Of all the things I aspire to be, my biggest goal is to be second rate. 

I know that I'm broken, sinful, selfish, lazy ... and I want my kids to know it too.

It won't take them long to figure out that I will hurt, disapoint and fail in my attempt to love them as a parent.

And I have to.

I am a mother.  I am human.  I want my kids to see me as only the faintest picture of the great I AM who tell us:
      "I am the better Father,
            the better lover,
            the better food,
            the better drink,
            the better rest,
in short, -- everything that you need - I AM"

So if you are caught in the trap that says "I've got to be the perfect parent" dial it back a bit.  Show your kids as much as you humanly can, and when it isn't enough - point them to I AM.