Grace Notes & Announcements

Dear Grace Family,  

 When I was a very young girl, I learned a song to sing for Mothers’ Day. It went like this:

              M is for the million things she gave me

             O means only that she’s growing old

             T is for the tears she shed to save me

            H is for her heart of purest gold

            E is for her eyes with love light shining

            R is right and right she’ll always be 

            Put them all together they spell Mother,

            The one who means the world to me

Most days as a mom, I didn’t feel much like a benevolent domestic goddess.  Some days it was all I could do to keep from running screaming out the front door. But there were those many golden and treasured moments with my son that kept me moving forward. A smile, a dandelion held up to me from grubby hands, a smoochy, sticky kiss for no good reason.  Motherhood is pretty amazing.

If I could rewrite the old classic though, it would probably go something like this:

                   M is for the millionth time I’ve told you

                  O means Oprah knows nothing of life

                  T is for the times I’ve longed to take off

                 H is for the household screaming fights

                 E is for the eyes God gave me for you

                R means random moments are enough

                Put them all together they show God’s love

                 He may have made me soft, but also tough

God’s created mom’s in a special way.  He gave us super hearing to know when our kids were doing something sneaky, and x-ray vision to see in the back of our heads. Most importantly, He gave us a heart so full of love, and an instinct to protect that is so acute, our children can always have a safe place to land.  Motherhood doesn’t require perfection, just dedication. The next time you feel like nobody sees what it takes to be a mom, think of how God created you, and how He sees you.  Proverbs 31 describes a Godly mom in this way:

25 Her clothes are strength and honor. She is full of joy about the future. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom. The teaching of kindness is on her tongue. 27 She looks well to the ways of those in her house, and does not eat the bread of doing nothing. 28 Her children rise up and honor her. Her husband does also, and he praises her, saying: 29 “Many daughters have done well, but you have done better than all of them.” 30 Pleasing ways lie and beauty comes to nothing, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised. 31 Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

We may not achieve that perfection every moment of every day, but at the end of our life our children will look back and say “I had a mom who showed me who God really was.”  Is there anything more perfect than that?

Be blessed my Grace family.  God is on the throne!

   Pastor Bobbie