Dear Young Mom, Do you have those days when you feel like everything you do is just getting undone? And you've made no progress on anything by the end of the day -- in fact, you feel like you've lost ground?
Believe me, I can relate. Really, I can.
The house may look like a wreck, but let me encourage you that you are doing something very significant.
The story of Hannah in the Bible gets my heart every time. She grieves when she can't have children, rejoices when she finally does -- and then leaves her precious baby at the doorstep of a priest (who didn't have the best record in raising his own children!). Every year, though, she brings little Samuel a little robe that she has stitched for him.
In order to make this robe each year, she had to know what size he was. She probably pictured his little body the whole time she was making it, no doubt praying for him with each stitch.
And this is us, mothers. Fathers are wonderful creatures, and play such an important role in our children's lives. But it's the mothers who know their exact sizes, who know them intimately enough to make them little robes. (This is figurative in my case because my sewing skills are abysmal!)
So, yes, it may feel like we aren't doing anything.... but we are. We're pouring into these precious lives, and unlike Hannah, we get to actually be with them while we do it. Tonight when you go to bed, don't think about the state of your house, the piles of unfolded laundry or the dishes in the sink, but remember that the little one you put to bed is just slightly bigger than he was when he woke up this morning.... and your heart probably is, too.
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