Hey There,

I hope your weekend was full of fun and that you are rested and ready for another week!

For the past eight years I have had the privilege to experience the joy and pain of being a mommy. I realize now that pregnancy, the nine months of carrying my children gave me a taste of things yet to come. In the early weeks I was ill, I was tired and felt like my daily morphing body was not only taking away bits of who I thought I was,  but was ushering someone into my life who would require sacrifice emotionally, physically, mentally, financially and yet my spiritual life has grown leaps and bonds since becoming a mommy. Unconditional love became a choice. Being a mommy has reinforced my God given strengths and quickly pointed out my weaknesses, can anyone relate? 

As my kidlets are still young, the hand made cards are prized possessions, the tissue paper flowers and the hand printed poems are evidence to me that God is so good. He has entrusted three children in our care and as a Father who authored sacrifice He understands the joy and pain of parenting.

 In the future when the hand made cards are traded in for Hallmark, and tissue paper flowers arrive as bouquets I want my children to know there are no other people on this earth who loves them as deeply as their daddy and I do. I want my kids to know that we will fail them but their Heavenly Father never will. I want them to see a mommy who chooses to love others, when the circumstances are difficult, when my energy level is low and when I am completely out of my comfort zone. I want my children to strive to be excellent in all they do because they are children of the King of Kings. I want my children to be known as those who love and serve because they love the Lord.

So as this Mothers day comes to an end I am thankful I  have a mother who exemplified all these things. And to all the mommies out there who are striving to be and do the best they can because they have eyes and ears watching them I say to you” you go girls” One day you will know your efforts are not in vain, even on the days where your best seems not enough, on the days when crawling under the covers would be the easiest thing to do and when patience is lost. We get up, we face the day acknowledging the gaps we find ourselves in will be covered by our Father, because He knows and understands the desire of a mommies heart.

Proverbs 31:28 (New International Version)

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