It’s a lot more.
Before I became a mom I had the knowledge that mothers love their children. I also had the firm belief that a mother’s primary job was to make her kids behave in a certain manner. There was so much that I couldn’t see.
I didn’t see how a woman’s heart was literally transformed when she became a mother, nor could I begin to the fathom the capacity to which it could love and the power which that love could contain.
I didn’t know that being a mom changed every single thing
about a woman. It makes her completely new in so many ways. A mother’s love
changes the way she thinks and operates. It makes a mark on every small detail
of her life.
All that any passerby can see is the physical. They see
what’s right in front of them – or for the sake of this post – what’s right in
front (or beside, or behind) of you. If they don’t see it then they don’t know
it’s there.
That love. They don’t know it’s there but it is.
My heart hurts for each of you – especially on Mother’s Day.
A day where women are celebrated because of who they are in a child’s life.
There are so many of you out there whose heart beats to a new rhythm because of
the baby you love. The one that has changed your life forever. But there’s
little acknowledgement or celebration for those who don’t have the physical
evidence of motherhood. And let me just say it – it’s not fair.
Don’t let the cashier, the Mother’s Day commercials, or
Hallmark try to convince you for a moment that you aren’t a mom, because you
are. You have that love and they just don’t see it.
I know this holiday isn’t an easy one for so many of you and
I would love to hug each of you and tell you Happy Mother’s Day.
You’re still a mom. The evidence is woven into every thread
of your heart.