Being a mama is often messy, but most pursuits worth doing, usually are.
We moved our daughter out of her dorm and home for the summer, just over a week ago. It was so exciting to get her back home. After unpacking, and folding, and rearranging, there was still no good place for a lot of the things that she moved home, so they ended up stacked as neatly as possible, in a corner of our dining room.
As I passed by the controlled chaos yesterday, I found myself chuckling.
We are getting ready to celebrate Mother’s Day and contrary to what the Hallmark commercials and Pinterest would like for us to believe, there’s nothing tidy, organized, or perfect, about being a mama.
The moment a woman learns that she is pregnant, life is no longer tidy and becomes very unpredictable. From the kind of pregnancy she has, to the length of labor, to the moment the baby arrives, life becomes controlled chaos.
There are sleepless nights, and potty training, and sometimes monsters underneath the bed. Then there’s someone who’s mean to your child at school. When we think we finally might have a handle on things, there’s middle school and hormones, followed too quickly, by dating and driving.
It’s often motherhood that shows us a tangible need for faith in our lives because we come to truly understand that nothing is really under our control. And when we wrap our brains around our need for God, we then feel a deep need to pass that faith on to the children He put in our care.
We understand that our children also need to have faith to weather the chaos that will inevitably occur in their lives.
This Mother’s Day, I’m so thankful that my daughter is back home. The boxes in the corner remind me that it’s temporary. At some point, both of my children will be grown and gone and my corners can perfectly ordered.
Until then, I’m embracing the chaos. Some boxes reminded me. Perhaps you needed reminding too. Happy Mother’s Day.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂