MOMMY SANDWICH

This week my kindred friend, fellow adoptive mommy, prayerful supportive sister in Christ snapped this photo of my
double-crier-mommy-sandwich moment at the beach.

Not that this is an atypical scene for me, but I just don't typically have a camera handy to capture the sheer bliss of toddler mania that takes place each day in our home as she did.

In the moment, another sweet friend joked that I should post the picture on my blog as we all laughed at the chaos...but after I actually saw the photo I realized, That is SO me! And, SO my life most days in all of it's often-chaotic splendor!

Yet, even in the raucous of a full house of bouncy, blessed children, I see how quickly childhood dissipates.
I long to leave loving imprints on little hearts that remember the nurturance of their mommy. It can be a battle with the flesh, but I choose LOVE. I choose JOY. I choose to GIVE and beg God to be all that I need to be for them each day in my own weaknesses. He is faithful...even when and especially when I fail.

"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. "

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Anyway, here's to memoirs of mommy sandwich moments in time,
sealed for legacy's sake in photograph memory of loving on flustered babies, thanks to friends.

"As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you."

Isaiah 66:13