It’s absolutely amazing, profound, and life changing when a new life moves within you…when you feel your baby move from the security of being in your womb then into the world and finally into your arms. You fall so deeply in love that all else pales. It’s the only clear picture of God’s love for me that I have ever truly understood.

There has never been a day that my daughter has not made me laugh, smile, and feel all warm and fuzzy at least once. However, there are days that the monotony of cleaning the highchair AGAIN, or correcting her AGAIN starts to wear on me. I just get tired.

We’ve seen our friends and relatives deal with their two year olds, but only in limited time periods. I hadn’t felt the draining affects of a full day with a two year old, who last week loved listening to Mommy, but today has decided that Mommy’s words are just suggestions.

Recently, I read in The Message paraphrase Proverbs 31:17-18

“She senses the worth of her work,
is in no hurry to call it quits for the day.”

I realized I hadn’t read it that way before because I hadn’t studied Proverbs 31 since my work has changed to primarily raising my daughter. I was stirred to change my thinking.

Moms, Do you sense the worth of your work with your children? Do you feel the urgency and importance of your training?

When I don’t “sense the worth” and it all seems too much, I have been praying these verses for myself and as always God is faithful to renew and remind me-we have the amazing privilege, the honor, to raise the next generation of Christ followers.