Moms

I like being a mom.  I like being Mom.  I know that mom is a title but it also an attitude.  An attitude of being a creator.  A mom creates life both biologically and simply in our existing on earth.  A woman that honors her mother side honors mothering.  She reaches out in love to others. She creates a safe environment,  She nurtures and nourishes. She cares.  She teaches.  She heals. She is an example, a cheerleader, a judge. She inspires.  She reaches out to all in her circle of influence and sees the good in them.  A mother sees potential but also points out the need for corrections.  She helps others reach for dreams. She creates hope, teaches how to love, sacrifices and accepts the gifts others share.  It is a mom that creates the feeling of home. The father is to provide the home, build the home and the mother creates the sense of refuge, safety, peace and hospitality.

It is a huge opportunity to honor our mothering side.  It is the most important role we have as women.  It is a role that we share and are partners with God.  It is innate in each of us.  We become amazing, wonderful, contributing members of all families when we embrace and do our part.

Our part will look different as we are each different.  We have individual talents and gifts, styles and personalities that enhance our ability to mother.  There is a place for each of us.  There are needs for each of us to fill and that includes with each other.  I am so grateful for the good moms I know. I learn from them and their example. I also learn and am strengthened from their support of me.  We need one another to remind each other that we are moving in the right direction. We are doing our best and getting a little better each day.  Every day that we face is one more grain in our basket, one more step in our journey leading us towards our happily ever after. We are moving forward to that time when we will have the opportunity to be with our Heavenly Father and Mother again. I want to be able to say I did my best, even on hard days I survived, I nurtured the seed of love you planted in me and I learned to love others.  With the faith to plant and nourish the seed I have reached the faith to reap and harvest. I didn't quit. I did the hard work. I counted the success and the blessings in each experience and I have become something more than I ever dreamed I could. I relied on the spirit to guide me, carry me, enable me and because of you, I have become something good, something worthy to be called mother.  I cherish that name and all that has come with it.

I am enough because God is more than enough and I am accepting, applying, enjoying, embracing the life He has given me.  I may not be much but I am being perfected in Him. He loves me where I am and is molding me into something, someone he sees in me.