When she cries and clings, a sign of attachment...in LOVE, I must remember attachments lost and the blessing I get to be as her Mommy.
When he whimpers or sulks over seemingly trivial things...in LOVE, I must remember that's what 3 year olds do.
When she doesn't sleep and I'm tired...in LOVE, I must remember the gifts nurturance and sacrifice bestow.
When he forgets his manners...in LOVE, I must remember he's new to all this family stuff and rules.
When she yelps to be fed...in LOVE, I must remember God has given us the privilege to feed her, respond to her, validate her voice.
When I lose sight of how new these relationships are (They feel so natural, so emulsified, so mine.)...in LOVE, I must remember we're all still learning.
When I sense the weight of this path God's paved...in LOVE, I must remember His yoke is easy, His burden light. He carries in weakness and shines all the brighter through dependence.
When I wonder why He's chosen me, so inadequate, so just a girl, for such a huge responsibility to love all these little ones in His name, to raise them up to love Him...in LOVE, I must remember it is not I who loves them, who trains them, but He who lives within. And He does all things well.
When I wonder what the future holds, feeling somehow authorship is mine...in LOVE, I must remember the future belongs to Him. The story, it's His! He makes the plans, He writes the song, He leads, we follow, we trust.
All of these things, by the grace of God, on an hourly basis, with a mother's intentionality, by faith, through hope, and in LOVE...I must remember.
"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is
LOVE."
1 Corinthians 13:13
