What motherhood has taught me…

I’ve heard that the closest we come to understanding the love God has for us, is by having children. I remember being a rebellious teenager thinking I knew better than my mother, and she’d respond with, “you’ll understand when you have children of your own.”

I was the wayward daughter and I broke my mother’s heart a thousand times, yet she loved me through it unconditionally. Now, I find myself staring into the eyes of my baby boy, praying daily that he stays on the straight and narrow path and doesn’t make the same mistakes I made. I finally get it.

My mother wasn’t overprotective, she simply cared. She wasn’t trying to ruin my life, she was trying to save it. She never spoiled me, she provided for everything I needed and more. And most of all, she never stopped loving me, no matter how many times I let her down. I may only be four months into motherhood, but I think I finally understand.

God forgives our sins over and over again, just like parents forgive their children countless times. Even though God’s love and greatness will never be fully understood by us small-minded people, I’d like to think I’m just a little bit closer to understanding Him through the blessing of motherhood.

“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you” Isaiah 66:13

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