Mother's Day thoughts....

So here we are. Mother's Day. What a special day to celebrate being a mother.

I painfully remember 11 years ago. I remember getting the results of our fertility tests back, with the startling and devastating reality that we were never going to have children. I remember begging and bargaining with God about having a child of my own. I remember that Mother's Day. It was so painful to watch all the mothers go forward at church. I had to leave the service, for it was a pain that I could not bear. I didn't understand God's plan. All I knew was that I thought God must be awful. How could he punish us this way??

Fast forward 11 years. I sat in church with my TWO, beautiful children. I heard them lift up their voices to that same God that I once thought so terrible and hurtful. My heart was filled with gratitude and love that God DID hear my pleading and bargaining and gave me not ONE, but two children! And He didn't stop there........

This month will mark our 9th month! A completed pregnancy! I know now that our little one is born and living somewhere out in this big world. He or she is waiting to become a part of a loving, caring, God fearing family. Next year, I will sit with not only the two greatest children in the world, but I will sit with THREE tiny miracles by a God of LOVE!

Happy Mother's Day and may we have many, many more wonderful Mother's Days!