You can’t have it all.
You can’t get ahead.
You can’t even keep up. There is no keeping up.
You can’t keep from looking your age without an increasing amount of help.
You can’t compare yourself to anyone else, including the you you thought you’d be or the you you were twenty pounds and ten years ago or the you you pretend to be but really aren’t.
You can’t always use you strengths.
You can’t always shed your weaknesses.
You can’t figure it all out.
You can’t have all the answers.
You can’t control the things you most want to control.
You can’t keep your kids from making mistakes.
You can’t keep your kids from making bad mistakes.
You can’t always be the mom you want to be…and you can’t give up on trying.
You can’t expect your husband to feel the same way about you now as he did when he first met you. You’ve birthed babies and wrestled with years. Let him love you more and differently now. You are more and different now.
You can’t stay the same. Who would want to stay the same?
You can’t please everyone.
You can’t even please yourself.
You can’t prevent failure.
You can’t prevent fear.
You can’t prevent I’m sorry and forgive me.
You can’t prevent people from refusing those words.
You can’t prevent struggling with them yourself.
You can’t love people enough.
You can’t love God enough.
You can’t even be enough.
And you can’t imagine how much God loves you anyway.
What can’t you do today?
So true…so very true. We must depend on God, we are totally dependent on Him. Loved meeting you on Thursday.
Ahhhhh!!! That almost made me start bawling again. This is a day where I feel like a complete mommy-failure and what keeps going through my head is “I can’t do this. I don’t know how to do this.” Sigh.
Thanks for your well-written words.
Praise God that He and my wonderful husband and family love me in spite of all my failures!
Beautifully said!