Day 128 - Mother's Day

Today I am thinking about what it means to be a mother. In my heart I cannot think of a more important job. We deliver life into this world and then we spend our own life nurturing and raising that precious being to be an independent adult who will have the ability to go out and change the world on his or her own. We teach, mold, love, forgive and then do it over again the next day. Being a mother is literally a gift and privilege from God. It is also a responsibility. While we spend our time nurturing those little ones (and we continue to do this even when they are grown), we also have to work on ourselves and better who we are so that we can be a living example to them. We have to cultivate our own soul, our marriage and relationships so that our children can see the life God intended us to live. We also need to be human. We need to ask forgiveness for our sins and let our kids see our faults and how we chose to better them. Ironically we need to teach them how to be independent and not to need us, which is so hard since we are nurturing them at the same time. I could go on and on about all of the responsibilities of being a parent and a mother, because it is that important. It is the job that God gave us; he opened our womb. What an amazing miracle and blessing and I intend to try to do the best job that I can, every day.