An Article for Moms & Future Moms

"Motherhood is a Calling" Article:
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/motherhood-is-a-calling-and-where-your-children-rank

Recently Garrett forwarded me this article from desiringgod.org called "Motherhood is a Calling." I'm obviously not a mother yet (8 or so more weeks), but I feel that I should reread this article daily and every day after Garrison is born!

I remember my attitude before we decided that we were "ready" to have kids and the list of what I wanted to do before we started a family (And to say that I still don't have an 'I want' list would be a lie). I can give you a mile long list of things I desire to do, but ultimately when it comes down to it 'selfishness' is the centerpiece of that list. 

The article states that "Our culture is simply afraid of death. Laying down your own life, in any way, is terrifying."  I see this on a weekly basis meeting with girls in crisis pregnancies. I hear the reasons of why they don't want to be pregnant. I hear the obstacles that they feel stand in their way.  The basics of what normally stands in their way is their own life.  The thought of losing their life for another is terrifying. 

"Motherhood is a Calling" makes a wonderful point that "Christians should have a different paradigm. We should run to to the cross. To death." "We, of all people, ought to know what follows death. The Christian life is resurrection life, life that cannot be contained by death, the kind of life that is only possible when you have been to the cross and back."

It's going to be hard, yet a good transition into motherhood.  Even so, the thought of laying down the list of things that I want is going to be stretching. I still complain about it to Garrett on occassion, but above all else I desire for my son to love the Lord! So learning to be more like Jesus in his life and his death is something that is a must for Garrison to see who Jesus is through me.  So for the sake of Garrison, those who don't know Jesus around me and ultimately for the glory of God, I'm starting to pray for the Lord to teach me what it means to die to the things 'I want' for another as He did for me! And I think that motherhood is going to be the perfect way for this to  happen...ready or not...it is coming!