Mother's Day 2012

This Mother's Day I really felt like a mother.  Being eight months pregnant and having two young children, I have been acutely aware of my motherhood and I'm sure others have too.  Waddling around and experiencing the physical demands of carrying a child on the inside, and taking care of two small boys, my life is completely consumed by motherhood.  This is a good thing, albeit a very tiring thing.  


The day started out on a very positive note, as Benjamin greeted me with a "Happy Mother's Day", and the cutest grin, as soon as I saw him in the morning.  He was proud that he had remembered.  I had received two lovely bouquets of flowers from my father and my husband, and a gift certificate to a pregnancy spa.  The day was capped off with a dinner made by my husband and father-in-law.  It has been a LONG time since Lance has cooked me dinner.  Whenever he does it, however, it is excellent and great care is taken in making it.  The infrequency of his cooking surely makes it seem more delicious.  Although I was physically uncomfortable, as one might gather from my photo, my heart was full of contentment with being so immersed in motherhood.  I adore my boys and I can't wait to meet the next one.  

Lance and I had watched a movie a couple of nights before Mother's Day about a couple whose son was killed.  This topic would normally be upsetting but it was much more so at this particular time in my life. I can not imagine something happening to any of my children.  The next night over dinner, Lance and I talked about how much we loved our boys and how easy it is to worry about something happening.  But no matter what we do and how hard we try to set up a great life for them, we can not ultimately control the course of their lives.  Pastor Brad's sermon this Sunday truly applied to what I had been feeling after that movie.  While he preached on the book of Daniel and did not specifically talk about Mother's Day, he did a good job of weaving it in.  Because God is in control and the future is already known as described in the book of Daniel, we mothers should not worry so much about our children and their fate.  What we should focus on is teaching them to know the Lord and demonstrating how to follow him by example.  The rest is in God's hands and we should be patient and faithful.  Brad had intended for this to provide some relief for mothers, and it definitely provided me a sense of calm and a place to focus my purpose in the coming years.