There are those who say that this is ordinary. But don’t let that fool you. “Mother” will always be the bravest, least ordinary, most difficult and utterly challenging career that anyone ever hopes to lay claim to.
While others might hear, “diaper-changer, food-maker, car-pooler, bottle-washer, laundry-doer, sweat pants-wearer, life-on-hold” wanna be doing anything else woman, the Truth, whether it feels like it some days or not, is that you are in fact a shelter from the storm.You are a Cape of Good Hope.
You are a warrior who will battle for your children’s hearts, souls, attention, innocence, education and memories.
Go to battle my friends. This is your time.
We will hold strong on either side of you. We will pray over those bottles, through the dark watches of the night, when doubt comes and children break, when adults fail them, when they push and push as hard against us as that day we delivered them into the world we. will. not. be broken.
We may ache and see cracks tear through our hearts, but we will get up again tomorrow and load the clothes and the words that need to be said. Again and again and again.
And when the world tries to claw at them, to break them, to smash the beauty in them, may our walls hold true. May the lessons we’ve told, the truths we’ve lived, the life we’ve spoken into them come back easily, predictably, with wash and repeat ease.
Kingdom business. Jesus work. This shaping of souls. This raising tiny humans.
There are those that say that this is ordinary. Don’t buy that for a second.
Mighty. You are mighty, because you mother.
This is the text to the “You are Mighty” video I shared last week. If you haven’t seen it yet, just click here. Based on a blog post by me and created by the gifted envisionaries at Journey Box Media, it captures the heart of the heart of motherhood. Pass it on to a mom in your life.
And maybe give her the So she has a constant reminder that nothing about what she does is ordinary. Especially not the dishes or the diapers or the tired eyes.
Mother on, friends. Mother on.
Loved the video (watched it last week!). Thank you for the cute bookmarks — can’t have enough bookmarks, you know (dog-eared pages are the bane of my existence – I am a book purist, you know).
i LOVE this..needed this today…its been a struggle last couple weeks….SNORT….couple of months and this was nice to read….
I’m totally bawling now. :)
Thanks for the encouragement!
Beautiful post of how a mother gives nurture:) Simply beautiful!
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