Ok, let's take a break from the heavy stuff.
If you know me well, and not many people do, you know that I spent years being focused on the heavy stuff, but as I get older, wiser, and more time-constrained with two kiddos turning our lives upside down, I am finding it much easier to keep it light-hearted :) I barely have time to think beyond dinner much less analyze the complexity of love.
So that being said, I'm just not in the mood to go deep tonight.
What's really on my mind is how much I love my daughter, Savannah, and how four years ago, when she was about to emerge from my belly, I had NO idea the ways in which she'd take me on a journey of love like none other.
A few things I've learned from being a mother:
- If you thought your life was busy and hectic before having a child, you are in for a challenge as now you are planning, preparing and arranging not only for your own life, but for your child's, who completely depends on you to steer them in the right direction.
- All of the things that your parents did that you hated or did not understand, you inevitably will do (except for the bad stuff, which hopefully you'll leave out to stop the pattern!) You will say the annoying sayings, and probably find yourself, from time to time, saying "Because I'm the momma, that's why."
- No one else in the world exists when you're in a priceless and beautiful moment with you child. You will be amazed and mesmerized at how easily they love you and trust you.
- You become convicted each and every time that they affirm you as "The BEST Mommy" because you know where you have failed and they don't.
- Even if a day goes badly and you can't WAIT for that child to go to bed so you can have some space, you are excited to see them the next morning when they wake up and have no ability to hang onto the past or remember the struggles of the previous day.
"Children are a GIFT from God.... they are HIS reward." Psalm 127:3
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