I was having a difficult day several days ago. A little while after having complained to anyone in the world who would listen to me, I came across a little post-it from my mother with the exact words I needed to hear right when I needed to hear them:
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
I just thought I would share. Also, motherhood has been a lot on my mind as I've been talking with Sarah, reading Sarah's blog, helping at home, thinking toward the day when I will have my own home and family. Thank you Sarah for all of your great articles, which I plan on reading when I get the chance, and for being a wonderful example. And thank you mom, if you ever read this, for giving yourself for your children. :-)
Really, I just want to thank all wonderful mothers everywhere. You give life and hope to the future, as well as nurturing and bringing peace to the present. All people have their own agency and must choose who they want to be. But how to choose??
Proverbs 22: 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
We do choose what we make of ourselves, but our families are such a part of who we are. We all stray a little bit in trying to "discover" who we are...but we come back to our roots. I've come to realize that I didn't so much need to create or discover a new me, but re-discover who was there all the time. It seems that during my periods of self-searching my mother has always stood by me, waiting for me to see myself as she does. I don't think my journey of self-rediscovery is complete, but I am well on my way. And in good company!! :-)
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