A Fresh Perspective
As I was sitting in church today listening to the messages about women and mothers, I suddenly realized that I was not feeling irritable on Mother's Day. I used to get so cranky because either I didn't measure up to what everyone was telling me I needed to be, or because it was supposed to be a relaxing, pampering day for me and I wasn't feeling relaxed or pampered. Lately, I've tried to make Mother's Day more of a celebration of how lucky we all are (because every single person on earth DOES indeed have a mother) that we were given life by someone who loved us more than themselves. And I've tried to celebrate all the things that I can do or the positive characteristics I have that I learned from my mother. It's not ACTUALLY a day about me. It's a day given as a gift to my children to reflect on how lucky they are to have a mother who loves them just as it is a gift to me to celebrate my own mother. It turns out that I hit the nail on the head wi...
