This High Calling

My Mother's Day was simply wonderful this year. I have 3 precious little ones to give thanks to God for. (One of which was not cooperative with these family photos so you will see few with...ahem...her...in them.) I had a beach to celebrate the day on. And special friends to share it with. It could not have been any better.

I consider mothering my little ones a special season of life and I pretty much feel I'm in the thick of it. =) Motherhood has caused me great frustration, but great growth; great sacrifice, but great reward; great inadequacy, but great dependence.

It is not all that I am, but one very important facet of my life. Motherhood is one of the high callings given to me by God and I feel I should take it seriously. There are days when I don't look at it that way and our home reflects that. There are also days when I do and it is one of the most satisfying and rewarding feeling to know that I truly am trying to stay devoted to this calling. (It took me forever to write that last sentence because Emma Claire was embracing me and giving me huge wet kisses every few words and saying, "I love you, Amma!" She is precious. If anybody knows why she chooses "Amma" as a substitute for "Mamma", please clue me in.)

I have started being intentional about praying for my kids individually. I feel I can already see the weak points in their lives that may cause struggles later in life. Yep. Even Keller. =) I want to truly know my children so that I can help them and lead them.


Spending precious time with them before catching up on the internet, before sewing a project, before running my errands, before loading the dishwasher, before talking on the phone. That is one of my many weaknesses. I'm a Martha not a Mary by nature. My name may be misleading, but that's the cold hard truth. I wish I wasn't like that. I wish I had the perfect balance. I wish I had it all figured out. I wish my children had the perfect mother. I wish I would never make mistakes. But God isn't in the business of working with perfection. He uses the weak things to confound the mighty. Man, I love that verse! You can see how He does it all throughout the Scriptures. The lineage of Jesus. The ministry of Paul. It's a comforting truth. He can use imperfection for His glory. He can use me. He can use our little family.

So, on Mother's Day, I couldn't help but be thankful for this truth. Thankful that God is ever faithful and continues to work on me. Thankful that motherhood is a process and not a 1-day shot. Pass or fail. A or F. Thankful that I have these gorgeous little children to pour my life out on.


Sure, I make mistakes, but I hope they know and feel how truly I love them. How desperately I want be like Jesus. How fervently I pray they will know Him. How passionate I feel about this journey of life we're on.


Thank you for being patient with me and for still reading after I've been gone so long. We will be back home in Oklahoma tomorrow and things will start to get back to normal. I hope to write quite a bit about our wonderfully too-short visit here in South Carolina.

I wish I was able to wish you a Happy Mother's Day on the actual day, but please know I hope you had a beautiful day and pray you are finding fulfillment in this high calling!

I Corinthians 1:27 - "...and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty..."