It’s time to spend a time thinking about the investment of a mother again and once again I have to do so without the presence of my own as we live 2000 miles apart. It’s days like this that the distance might as well be a million miles….seems hard.
However, even though hard not to see her today, there is so much to be grateful for in her. I think becoming a mom 17 years ago has made me appreciate so much more my own mom. I did not realize what she had been asked to do in raising two daughters.
There are two kinds of mothers in the world (at least from my own observations). Those who embrace the calling, throw themselves into loving their babies and do whatever it takes to bring them up according the God-given responsibility described in the Bible. And then there are those who think little of the role, hang on the their own small life and lose the opportunity to influence the next generation by pouring into their children.
I am very happy, grateful, delighted, and humbled that my mother was the former. She loved being our mother both while we were at home wearing her clothes, messing up her house, spending her money, and taking up tons of her time and she still loves it. She still delights in us coming home with our own kids to mess up her house, raid her closet at times, spend some of her money, and takes tons of her time!!! And she makes us all feel loved.
So much of what I am today is because of her love for me and because she showed me the way to the cross. Pointing out this way, until Christ captured my heart. God used her as a tool in bringing me to Himself and He did so because she was was obedient to Him to raise her children according to His ways as best as she could. I am blessed.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mama. We will celebrate more in CO in June.
I love you,
Angela
