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GO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today was Peace Day at the Haggerty School. Trinity\u2019s teacher asked the students to draw or write on the morning message board what peace feels like to them. Trinity looked up at me with searching eyes as if she could discern from my face what Jesus is doing in her little heart as her Prince of Peace. \u201cWhat do you think of when we talk about peace at home?\u201d I asked. She gave a little shrug, grabbed a red marker, and wrote, \u201cShalom.\u201d Then she smiled at me as if we shared a special secret and ran to tell her teacher all about shalom, peace, wholeness.<\/em><\/p>\n

She\u2019s always doing things like this\u2014amazing me with her very own relationship with Jesus. She\u2019s my Diva With a Heart of Gold<\/a>. She cares about the homeless and the lonely.\u00a0 She remembers to pray for people in need.<\/em><\/p>\n

She cleans her brothers\u2019 stinky rooms and makes them toast on Saturday mornings.<\/em><\/p>\n

At bedtime, she rubs my cheek and calls me Mom-cess.\u00a0 When I kiss her forehead after I nestle her into her Princess Tiana comforter, I call her Trin-cess.\u00a0 This ritual is more than sweet nothings uttered between mother and daughter, this is a naming rite designed to remind each other of our true identity. We are princesses\u2014cruciform, Cross-shaped daughters of the King.<\/em><\/p>\n

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These are the times motherhood comes alive for me\u2014when I see my children \u201cget\u201d it.\u00a0 When they open their eyes to Jesus\u2019 love and let it transform them\u2014I\u2019m amazed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

STOP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s FMF inspired me to start a conversation on this blog\u2026 how can I be more mindful in raising children that reflect the sacrificial, life-bringing love that Jesus modeled on the cross? How did the concept of Jesus bringing shalom, wholeness, harmony to this broken world on the cross work its way into my seven year old\u2019s heart?\u00a0 What does cruciform parenting, wifey-ing, living look like?\u00a0 Join me next week when I begin this conversation on cruciformity with a post called, \u201cBecoming and Raising a Cruciform Princess\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shalom and Much Love,<\/p>\n

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