Inextricably Bound

Happy Mother's Day.

The older I get, the further along I go in my path of mothering, the more aware I am of what a great mother I have. I love my own children more than I can ever say, my love of words notwithstanding. Nonetheless, despite my best efforts, I will never be the mother I long to be. This grieves me, and every Mother's Day, I feel a twinge of sadness for all my failures. You perfect mothers out there can pity me.

A friend posted an article that cheers me. Do you know that with every child conceived, stem cells from that unborn child enter the mother's heart and brain? Research has shown that some diseases of the mother have been partially or fully healed by her unborn baby's stem cells! The mother literally carries her child forever in her heart and brain.

But all of us mothers know that. And all of us know that a piece of us is left forever in our own mother. God designed mothers, and knew just what He was doing, inextricably binding them to their children.

Happy Mother's Day.
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Proverbs 31:25-30 

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” ...

Psalm 127:3 

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Isaiah 49:15 

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.