Happy Mother's Day!

We are blessed to have wonderful, godly mothers who stand behind us in prayer and are always there to lend a hand. For every day that I've been a mother, I become more and more grateful for the love and care I've received from my mom. I appreciate what Elisabeth Elliot has to say about motherhood: "

Motherhood is a calling. The woman’s obedience to that command meant self-giving. First she gave herself to her husband – he initiated, she responded – then she gave herself for the life of her child. A woman knows, in the deepest regions of her being, that it is this very self-giving for which she was made. Single or married, her level of maturity is measured by how much she gives to others. If she’s married, she gives herself to her husband and she receives. If she’s a mother, she loses her life in her child and – mysteriously – she finds it. A woman knows that no one can really say where the giving ends and the receiving starts. [God] calls some to be single, some married people to be childless, but He calls most women to be mothers. There are, the Bible tells us, “differences of gifts,” and they’re all given to us according to God’s grace. None of the gifts of my own life – not my “career” or my work or any other gift – is higher or more precious to me than that of being some-one’s mother. If our calling is to be mothers, let’s be mothers with all our hearts – gladly, simply, and humbly – like that little peasant girl Mary who spoke for all women for all time when she said, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to Thy word” (Luke 1:38).         ~Elisabeth Elliot

Thank you, Mom, for teaching me by your example, how to be a woman and a mother!