Motherhood

I'm beginning to think that it would help me if Mother's Day happened multiple times a year. There is something special about having a day set aside to celebrate this central calling of my life that has a way of rejuvenating energy for the many demands motherhood calls for and provides a fresh sense of enjoyment of the precious (though sinful and ornery a lot of the time) children God has given me to love and nurture and nourish and teach and discipline and shape and enjoy. 

Thankful today to be the mommy to Owen, Baxter and Lucy. Hopeful for Gods blessing on them through me (and Matt) in the years to come!

And I am also thankful for my own Mommy who continues to love and encourage and build me up as she has the past 33 years!!

I am also praying for those whom motherhood and Mother's Day stirs up feelings of sadness and hopelessness and regret and discouragement from personal experience as a mom or with their own mom or from a longing to be a mom that has of yet gone unfulfilled. I pray that God would be a refuge to them - and a very present help in trouble.