I am NOT Wonder Woman

I posted this picture earlier today thinking it was quite humorous. Maybe it is--at least it was when I posted it. My caption was, " Most days I fall between Rosie the Riveter and Wonder Woman." Over the course of the evening though in conversations with my daughter and with my son--I realized this statement isn't true at all. I am NOT Wonder Woman at all--not to mention Rosie the Riveter, I'm just Lisa and imperfect in every way. All the MOM POWER in me couldn't wish or pray my son on the team he wanted to be on this year. I can't go back in time and give my daughters the extra music and dance lessons I now wish they'd had. I may be unable to put rivets back into the broken places and fractured relationships that have been slow leaks over the years. But God can. He never intended for me to be Wonder Woman, Rosie the Riveter or anyone else for that matter. He fashioned me to be just the way I am--flaws,  shortcomings and all. God made me with a God shaped vacuum in my life that only He can fill. Only Him. I want to be my children's and husband's superhero but that may put me in competition with the only Superhero. That's a race I will surely lose. So...I choose to accept and learn the losses of the past but look hopefully into the future cradled in the arms of the Almighty. Tomorrow is another day, another night and very hopefully--another opportunity.

"Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might."
Ephesians 6:10