Mother's Day

Mother's day is both a beautiful blessing and a raw pain.

Tonight I especially pray for all those I love who are experiencing their first mother's day without their mother's... and for those who - no matter how many years - it still feels like the first.

I pray for those mother's who are experiencing their first mother's day without their children - and for those who know the harsh truth that no matter how many years the pain of the death a child is always deep and wide.

I pray for the women everywhere who long to mother, who wrestle with becoming a mother, who wrestle with how to mother, and with giving their children up to adoption. I pray for the children who long for mothers, whose mother's have walked away, and who long to be held by someone mothering them.

I pray a prayer of thanksgiving for all the strong women of faith in my life who have chosen to mother me - encouraging, caring, challenging, and inspiring.

I pray a prayer of thanksgiving for the two precious girls, Eden Elizabeth and Bethany Grace, who call me "Momma" and spur me on to be better and love deeper. And for our precious baby who is already in the arms of Jesus (or maybe more accurately at this point - my Grandma Bev, if she has her way).

And tonight, as I wear my Haiti baby necklace for the second Mother's Day, I pray for our son. That he would - through the power of Holy Spirit and the grace of Jesus Christ - know that he is loved and we are coming and that I long for the moment he is in my arms.

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