Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!  To all of the women out there who selflessly give of their lives daily on this road called motherhood.  God has truly given us a gift and a job all wrapped up in our little sweeties.  I pray that we take this job seriously and raise our children up in the way they should go.  My prayer for myself is that I will daily strive to be a better mother for my kiddos.  To be the kind of mother that God wants me to be.  I want to show them how to be ladies as the Bible says how.  I want to show them the love of Christ and pray that someday they too will know how marvelous God is.

My children inspire me.  They make me happy.  They make me tired(no one said it wouldn't be without sleep.)  But above all, they make my heart soar.  I look at their faces and see the glory of God.  He has loaned these little people to me so that I can return them back to Him hopefully fully trained and ready to serve Him themselves.

One of my favorite coupon blogs posted a blog today where she picked 20 people who had submitted entries about their mothers and why they were special.  I read through them and was crying by the end because it is so amazing how important this job of “mother” is.  I looked at myself and thought, “Wow, will my children be able to say these things about me?”  I so desperately want to do what is right for my children.  But I think what I want most is for them to know how much they are loved.  And the only way I can show that to them is if I truly love the Lord.  It is impossible to truly love others the way God commands us to if we don’t first love our Creator and Lord.(1John 4:7-11)  He is love and gives us the ability to love.  (1John 4:16) With all of those wonderful stories of mothers I read, I also read countless stories about mothers who have killed their children by driving into a river or left their children alone in the bathtub only to drown or left them locked in a car when it’s 100 degrees outside.  What was missing there?  God.  God was missing.  The only way we can truly love our children, or anyone else for that matter, is if we truly love God and know the sacrifice He made for us.

I’m so grateful that God chose me to be a mother.  He didn’t have to give me these children to raise up but he did. I am so grateful.  He’s shown me so much more about Himself through my children.  I prayed for patience and along came my first child.  I prayed for wisdom and along came my second child.  I prayed for His will to be done and I am about to give birth to my third child…a son.  I see all of my prayers working themselves out through my children and I’m in awe of God for this.  To be able to actually see God working in my life right before my eyes.   I have a long way to go on my walk with God but I pray that every day, every step, will be better than the last and He will continue to reveal Himself to me.

May the Lord bless you and keep you.