We’ve made huge mistakes along the way for sure, but you can only do so much and then you put them into God’s hands- knowing that’s the very best place for them to be. For all the moments and memories of parenting. Let’s cut the threads of guilt with grace.” Lysa TerKeurst “Today, let’s set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we’re not. Perhaps we need to make the most of being in THIS VERY MOMENT with our families rather than feeling guilty about missed opportunities and messed up pasts.ĭo you need to give yourself a little grace right now, whatever season you’re in? Perhaps we need to stop striving for the impossibility of perfection and quit trying to measure ourselves against the next mom/ wife/ writer/ businesswoman/ grandma in line. Why is it so hard to give ourselves a little grace? We have a Heavenly Father who lavishes grace upon us as a beautiful gift daily… perhaps we need to take His lead. More hugs and less shrugs… and yet, GRACE. Spent more time listening and less time nagging. We have a tendency to beat ourselves about the head with a broom and wish we had done the whole parenting/ mothering thing better. “What you really want, desperately, wildly, in spite of everything - is for them to remember the good…What every mother wants, her most unspoken need - is a truckload of Grace.” Ann Voskamp “The days are long, but the years are short.” (Gretchen Rubin) When it comes to motherhood, that pretty much hits the nail on the head, don’t you think? When you’re in the trenches it seems like there is NO LIGHT at the end of the tunnel-ever, and then suddenly you realize your time’s up and you hope to goodness you’ve done enough… No one warns you it’s a thing, but you guys-it is!įorgive the melodramatics but I have no children left! Oh, I know, they’ll always be my babies and motherhood is forever, but this past weekend we had the absolute joy of ALL being together (no easy feat) and it hit me like a ton of bricks-my three kids are now all grown up. This is why, sometimes, when a person is extremely sad or is about to cry, it seems as if he’s grinning.How did that just happen? How did my youngest just turn eighteen years of age and now suddenly all my babies are adults? Some of you are probably raising your wise eyebrows and nodding slowly because you’ve been there, and some of you are changing diapers and feel a million years away from being in my stilettos. Instead, the lip corners may appear to be in a neutral position or in a slightly raised position. In acute sadness, the cheeks may be so powerfully raised that the lip corners don’t appear to be turned down at all. CheeksĬheeks are raised producing the inverted ‘U’ wrinkle on the sides of the nose. This expression is commonly seen in children when they cry or are about to cry. The chin muscle below the lower lip which pushes the lower lip upward is raised intensely in acute sadness, increasing the size of the lower lip by curling it forward. Lips are stretched horizontally with the lower lip pushed up and the lip corners turned down. The upper eyelids are drooped and the person who is sad usually looks down. Wrinkles (usually vertical) may also be seen between the eyebrows and if they are naturally present, they’ll deepen and darken in sadness. This angling upward of the eyebrows produces wrinkles on the forehead that are in a ‘horseshoe’ pattern. The inner corners of the eyebrows are angled upward forming an inverted ‘V’ above the nose. In this article, we’ll look at how people display the facial expression of sadness by going over different parts of the face one by one.
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