Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Remember

There is a longing that God places in the heart of most women to have children. It’s a great way to insure repopulating the earth! When a woman wants a baby, she will go to great lengths to make it happen. It can become an obsession weighing on her heart and mind all day, every day when conception takes longer than she anticipated. I have been there. I have had friends and family who have been there. There is something about the desire for a child that can consume us.
Then, after months or even years of trying, they arrive… Sometimes it’s everything we imagined. Often times it’s not. Being a mom is often much, much harder than we ever realized it would be. But the love in our hearts is also more powerful than we ever knew it could be. It’s true. You can never describe to someone who isn’t a parent what it’s like to love your child. Nor can you ever experience that kind of love until you have one of your own. It’s impossible to understand until you are holding your precious baby in your arms. Day after day, week after week, the love grows. I remember when my babies were brand new. I would think that I couldn’t love them any more than I already did. Then a week later, the love had grown even deeper. It didn’t seem possible, but somehow it was. The more I got to know them and the more we interacted with each other, the fuller my heart became.
Sometimes when my kids are driving me crazy, it helps me to think about that. How I longed for children for years before they came. What was I thinking?! Of course, I’m just kidding. I don’t know what I would ever do without them now. Sometimes I look at them and still see a sweet chubby face of a 1 year old. My, they are growing up so fast.
I know not every child is planned. Sometimes, they are a sweet or perhaps shocking surprise. Either way, every child is special, and the Bible tells us children are a Gift from God. We would do ourselves and our children well to remember that fact, even when our nerves are frazzled. Or should I say especially when our nerves are frazzled. I’ve learned through 7 years of being a mom that no matter how much my kids make we want to scream or cry (admittedly I have done both), there is nothing they could ever do to make me stop loving them. I think I’ll give my mom a call…

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