Mothers Day

Mothers day is fast approaching and I find myself reflecting on all the mothers, that in my life have shaped the "better mother in me". I wouldn't consider myself a "worlds greatest mother type of mom", but I'm not terrible and I hate to think of the mother I would be if God had not so strategically placed all the right mommies in my life at just the right time. First I will start with my mommies.....my biological mom taught me if it is the very last thing you do in life, pray for your children! My second mom taught me that you can really love a child as your own even if you didn't give birth to them.I think back to a couple of years before I was a mother, and a good friend of mine had just had her first baby. I watched her struggle to nurse her baby, she persevered and had success, it was beautiful. Then my mother-in-law taught me about healthy foods I watched her and I think willed myself to eat and enjoy foods I never liked so that I too could be like her and give my children a healthy start. My friend Salley taught me that to instill the word of God in my children would be the most important thing I could do for them (she is so right). The word does not return void, and children will grow up and know how to do life not perfect, but with righteousness and love for God and others in mind and heart. And last but not least Elizabeth, for teaching me to not worry so much about the disaster that my house is and I can still have friends over when everything looks like a tornado hit......it's a lesson in not sweating the small stuff! I know I'm missing so many, but in my mind when I do something "right" I think not because of me but because of the mommies I have learned from. All glory to God, for using people for good regardless of them even realizing.