Whether you have adopted or not, this post that I read on the "Urban Servant Blog" was just too honest and real not to pass on! She summed up beautifully the hard reality of what it means to be a sinner trying to shepherd other little sinners. The blessing of it all is knowing that we are not alone. God has given us His Spirit to live inside of us and He has joined us to the body of Christ...both in our local church and abroad in which we find sweet encouragement and accountability! Hope the following challenges your heart as it did mine!
What kind of mom....
freaks out when the nursery workers allow her child to 'escape'
or looses her cool when sick children are allowed in and fragile ones exposed.
What kind of mom....
locks herself in the ice cold pantry because she wants
to shake this child she fought so hard to adopt - the one who has become the 'enemy.'
What kind of mom....
stomps her foot so hard at a toddler that she is thinking about fractures and wonders if it's worth it for the half day of respite a visit to the emergency room would bring.
What kind of mom....
loses the desire to hug the child that screams, and fights, and day after day pushes her away.
What kind of mom....
Aches for the sameness and calmness and peace filled reality of life 'before' this child.
That's God's chosen mom.
Those called to the special task of parenting children who can be unloving, unable, unwilling and unbending.
A select group of women called into the exhausting task of pouring grace after grace onto wounded hearts and bodies -only to have it thrown back into our faces.
An exhausted team that have prayed the endless hours of the night with children God placed into their unprepared arms - trusting that His ways are best.
Women with wounds and scars.
Cracked pitchers that loose half the Living Water to our own weakness before we can raise it to pour it over the thirsty around us.
What type of mom....
Truly asks to be a part of the weeping, misjudged and bedraggled army that God has raised up to care for His special children.
What type of mom...
Picks up this cross daily and follows the One True Leader because the voices around us clamor that we can't do this hard thing we are called into.
What type of mom am I today?
The one who embraces the suffering or the one who chafes under it and wants another way.
Day by day I have to ask..
What type of mom today?
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A select group of women called into the exhausting task of pouring grace after grace onto wounded hearts and bodies -only to have it thrown back into our faces."
"Those called to the special task of parenting children who can be unloving, unable, unwilling and unbending.
A select group of women called into the exhausting task of pouring grace after grace onto wounded hearts and bodies -only to have it thrown back into our faces."
Do mothers of teens fall into this category as well? Hee, hee. ;p
Thank you for passing this along!
Much love.