My love heals and restores all relationships. It’s sometimes hard for me to write a praise report because they all tie together. The blessings just keep running over and over each other. Let me start by telling you about this situation.
My oldest son let me know that my new daughter in law may have gotten her feelings hurt when I couldn’t make their wedding cake the way she wanted. So her mom and sister decided to order it from a bakery. I have been wanting to talk with her and let her know that I wanted to help and make it but I’m sorry I couldn’t do what she was hoping for. I also wanted to let her know how much I love her. I have witnessed lately a lot of terrible relationships and attitudes between mother in laws and daughter in laws and I don’t want that between us. I want to have a close loving relationship and I will always be here to help and listen and I will never repeat what she confides in me and I will never speak badly of her to anyone ever.
It has been months now and I have been praying for the opportunity and the words to have a talk with her. I have been also asking for My Love to create a strong closer relationship with myself, my son and my new daughter in law and teach me how to be a loving mother in law as this is new for me. I am determined that the way the world portrays the mother in law/daughter in law relationships is not the way the Lords intended it and not what He wants for me. I have seen people have poor attitudes towards the other and people have asked me questions as if it is almost expected that I would not like her or she not like me. I feel this is terrible and it hurt my heart to see this from so many people around me.
The other day when my son was coming over I asked My Love and said if this is the time please have her come in with him and sit and chat and I know He will give me the right words. I really felt, as uncomfortable as it may be, it was a wedge between me and My Beloved and what else he wanted to do in my life and in order to take our relationship to the next level. So the enemy would not keep this over me and use it against me anymore.
They both came in and spent some time chatting. Before they left I asked to speak to my daughter in law and asked for her forgiveness for that and any other time I’ve ever made her feel bad in any way. Like I’ve ask my kids for forgiveness for the way I’ve handled things in the past I ask her for her forgiveness too. It was the way I learned growing up but it was not who I wanted to be and I wish I handled things differently as a mother. Now I know my faults, I’ve learned and now I know better. I let know all the love I had for her and that I love her not just because my son married her but I love her because she is such a wonderful person individually. I want to spend more time with her and have a close loving relationship, not only together as a family but individually with me and her together. I let her know know all that my heart wanted to say as I mentioned earlier in my praise report. Although I could see it made her a little uncomfortable, because this is not usually done or expected, she was so receiving and forgiving. She let me know she doesn’t not think I’m a bad person or think poorly towards me either. She thinks I am a good person, with a good heart and wants a good relationship with me as well. She said it was a little stressful time for her before the wedding but she understands and there is no need for forgiveness.
My Love is My Healer and Restorer. He always knows what needs to be done to turn hearts and heal hearts. He has taken this weight off and replaced it with peace, love and forgiveness. This can only be done through My HH not on my own. We have to work with Him and wait on Him in His perfect timing, not force it and try to do it on our own timing. If I had done it on my own it would not have produced the good fruits that He intended it to.
Praise to You, My Love, for Your loving kindness that You continue to give to us freely so that we may give to others. You continue to forgive and heal our hearts from all things and all thoughts that are not of You. The amount of love and blesssings you give are overflowing because You are so good, so kind and so loving. All things are possible with You.
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Hi Ruby, how lovely to hear from you. Thank you for sharing how He is building a relationship with your daughter in law. I enjoyed how you wisely took it to Him first before even talking to her and when you did, it was with so much love.