Moms, you matter
March 8, 2010 | Just thinking out loud, Nurturing Family
I’m sitting in my “cave” at the library, the lights down low as the fluorescent lights shine brightly just a few feet away. I’m listening to a little country music on Pandora, not usually my style but it fits the rainy day outside.
My weekend was full. Speaking. A wedding. Friends and family.
Now I’m turning my focus to preparing for Hearts at Home. It’s an amazing conference for moms. Thousands of moms across the nation attend, but it was started by a mom who needed other people. A mom who hoped that her small Bible study might be successful. A mom that didn’t try to make her home perfect or even her life perfect before she opened her home to the women who were seeking the same thing she was — encouragement, friendship, support.
And now it’s an Intl. conference that pulls in women from all over the world, and it reaches outside of Normal, IL to Minnesota, California, Michigan women, but also to women in Budapest, Hungary, in Vienna, Austria, in Weisbaden, Germany.
How in the world does that happen?
I believe it’s sheer faithfulness. Stepping up to do something ordinary, but with extraordinary tenacity.
Just like Nehamiah. A cup bearer. Not the most desired job in the world. Drinking the King’s ale before he does to make sure it’s not poison. A servant’s position. A position that some would say that anyone could do. And yet an enormous position of trust. One that meets a need, that protects, that serves, that in a sense is for the betterment of the nation who needed a King.
He just kept on day after day. His faithfulness launched an effort to join with other “every day” people that changed history and revealed the power of God to a nation.
Right now you might be potty training. Correcting behavior. Loving. Serving. Doing the every day with tenacity and attention to detail. Maybe you feel overwhelmed, unappreciated, so in love with your little one or so exasperated with your older one.
In the long run you are doing something that matters a great deal. Your every day little gestures of love and teaching and patience and service is shaping a man or woman your child will become, and the people whose lives his or her character will touch. But in the short run, it’s just as key. We have no idea what God is doing as He partners with you day by day, but it matters.
You matter. Thank you, moms, for your faithfulness, for all you do.
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Ah, a great reminder. Thank you.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:56 pm