I am definitely a little behind on things but I wanted to post some pictures from Mother's Day. The weather was perfect and we went to church and then had lunch at my parents house and hung out for the day. Micah's mom was out of town so we are excited to celebrate with them this weekend.
At church they asked all mothers to stand and they said a special prayer. It was a really nice moment but for some reason all I could think about were the women for whom Mother's Day serves as a painful reminder.
May God abundantly bless, comfort and answer prayers for:
The woman who has recently lost her mother
The woman desperate to be a mother
The woman who has lost a child
The woman who feels tremendous guilt for a decision she made for her unborn child
The single mother who feels alone.
I hope all of you who are mommas had a special day. I cherish my own mother, LiLi, and hope to become the mother she is to me to EEM. Words can't describe how God abundantly blessed me with her as my mom.
As you can see, we attempted a group picture. Thank you, EEM, for your participation.
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I love this post by Ann Voskamp. Click here to read it in it's entirety. Here is an excerpt:
God said-
I need somebody who can shape a soul and find shoes on Sunday mornings and get grass stains out of Levis.
And make dinner out of nothing and do it again 79, 678 times, and keep kids off the road and out of the toilet and in clean underwear and mainly alive though she’s mainly losing her mind and will put in an 80 hour week by Wednesday night and just do one more load of laundry.
And one more sink of crusted burnt pots.
And keep on going another eighty hours because raising generations matters and weaving families matters and tying heart strings matters and these people here matter.
So God made a mother.
