And Her children will rise up and call her blessed, and her husband will sing her praises. Proverbs 31:28
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Diane W. Bailey is the founder of The Consilium – an online community of wisdom and purpose for women over 45 years of age. She is a published author. Her books include String of Pearls – From Tears to Treasure, and 30 Days To A Better Stepfamily.
She creates her own line of precious metals bracelets.
Diane lives in the Deep South with her husband Doc. Together they have created a stepfamily, each having two stepchildren and two birth children, and share three grandchildren, one black lab named Charlie and one long haired tabby cat named Lil Girl.
Diane’s passion is to encourage women to be all God has created them to be by pressing past fear and daring to live life as an adventure. Some of her life adventures include traveling to Israel, speaking, entrepreneurship and backyard farming with Doc. She loves Gumbo, fried shrimp and seeing all sunsets across water.
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Lovely photo, lovely Word. Made me smile.
[Well, you’ve changed!!! Well, not YOU… but your blog, which you had indicted was a challenge for the changing. Love this!!]
I long for that day and pray for it in FAITH~!
May it be true of your children and mine, dear Di~!
Yes, sweet Mary, Yes.
Thank you Mary, and Blessings on you. You are so dear to me! ~Di
It is truly amazing when children appreciate the blessing of a mother!
Yes, Trinity. For me, It was realizing that she was not perfect, and loving her right where she was
Yes, Trinity. but we so often, take them for granted, don’t we? Blessings on you today, you are so tender hearted. You have blessed me today.
Sweet photo!
Thank you, Elizabeth.
What a lovely image! And a gentle reminder to us mothers to cultivate a peaceful and loving relationship with our children.
Thank you, Marty. I like the way you said that.
… oh yes, that is our prayer … and when He answers, our hearts fill with gratitude because if we’re honest, we know that we are unworthy …
And, Linda, They love us anyway, like we love them, in all of that imperfection.