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My mom sent this letter to me today via email. The timing could not have been more perfect. The tears were welling up after the first few sentences, and I will admit that does not happen very often.
Maybe it touched me today because the baby has cried since he woke up this morning, and now four hours later he has finally fallen asleep. Maybe it is because the baby is refusing to nurse because his top two-front teeth are coming in simultaneously. Or maybe it is because I feel at a loss for not achieving everything I wanted to accomplish with the girls this summer.
We try so hard, do we not? To be the perfect mother. But, there is no such thing.
There are only figments of our imagination where we create the perfect mother from reading bits of blogs and books. I just let out a huge sigh of relief knowing that is true.
God does not ask us to be perfect. I'm grateful for that today.
So here is to all the imperfect mothers out there, who love their children dearly, who are doing the best that they can in the situation God gave them; but fall flat and need the courage to get back up again. I hope you find encouragement in this letter like I did today.
In God's unfailing and perfect love,
Katie
1 comment:
Katie, I NEEDED to read this today. A million thanks. There are great days and there are really really bad days, and lately I've had more of the latter. But the absolute best remedy for me -- talking to other moms. They understand. They can tell you that you're not crazy. I thank God for you and all my mama friends!!
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