The hallway of the maternity ward was empty. My shoes were squeaking against the waxed tile. My sister-in-law was in one of the first rooms. Her belly was round and she was calmly sitting, watching the monitor as a heartbeat jumped across it. A few minutes later another monitor located the second heartbeat. The twins…
He was six years old that summer. Red hair and freckles that danced across his nose. He was so good most of the time, rarely in need of correction. But that day he was on the edge, tight-rope walking the thin line of obedience. When he fell from the line and stood before me,…
I had always planned on motherhood. On middle-of-the-night feedings, hauling around car seats, wiping up spit-up, learning to change diapers one-handed. I studied all the tricks on getting littles to eat vegetables and the easiest ways to swaddle.
I was a teacher by nature. I learned the best by teaching others and motherhood seemed like the perfect fit. In teaching my children to know God, I would know Him better. Motherhood would please both Him and me.
The truth is that motherhood looked a certain way to me.
There’s something intimate and beautiful that happens when a woman gives birth. Something glorious. Or so I’m told. “So, until you have your own baby,” I hear, “you just won’t understand.” And when I believe them… something in my heart withers and dies. There’s a special mother-knowledge that is only for those whose bodies aren’t…
1. Pain is pain. But before you roll your eyes, let me explain. In life, we’re all very good at ranking pain. What you face is not nearly as bad as what she faces. And the thing that girl over there faces? It’s nothing compared to what you deal with. I don’t have babies, but…
Some days are easier than others. Some days I wake up and life is filled with sunshine and my husband is wonderful and my heart is content. And then comes the day when the teenager is pregnant, the baby is being raised by a grandmother, and the mother who doesn’t want to be bothered aborts. Those are…
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