05/10/2026
Happy Mother's Day to all our moms and grandmas, step-moms and teacher "mamas" represented by our Sowing Seeds families. ❤️ Considering my audience, and being a working mother myself, I can speak for many when I say this is not an easy role...I mean loving our babies is the easy part, but balancing out the working, and the caretaking, and the cooking and the sports, and the snuggle time, and the cleaning, and the reading books and the lunch-packing, and the bath time and getting myself together is SO HARD. I feel so torn and guilty so often because the fact is, there is just only so much of me to go around. Resources are NOT endless. There's only so much energy, so much time, so much money and so much brain power. We have limited resources to meet all those needs listed above. So things fall through the cracks.
Thank goodness for grace.
My gift to you is just stating out loud that there is grace for all of it. Some people manage to get it all right and not miss the details. But boy, not me. I miss the occasional field trip permission slip, and the packed lunch, and the water bottle and the gym shoes, and to wash the uniform, but God knows I'm trying my best and LOVE prevails over all, and grace fills all the cracks when I fall short. Love is the aim, love is the goal, not perfection.
Thank God for His grace and His love. He sustains me day in and day out. I can whisper prayers all day long..."God, I need you".... "God, I feel like I'm not enough."...."Lord, please help me be the best mom i can be."....."Heavenly Father, I need your wisdom to raise these teens right"...."God, please help me instill in my daughter true identity- that she is loved and beautiful on the inside just because You made her, and that is enough, and guard her from this world." I thank God He walks with me day by day on this mothering journey. I am too weak to do it alone, especially as a working mom. I thank God for good friends, and encouraging women who live in reality too, recognizing life isn't picture perfect like people portray on Facebook and Instagram. It's rather difficult. The LOVE is easy, it's inherent, and natural, but the time, the energy, and the resources makes it feel hard sometimes as its clouded over by sickness, and burned dinner, and heartaches, and the chaos of life and the endless responsibilities.
I live in grace, God's grace, breathing it in and breathing it out like a lifeline sustaining me every day. May you find joy and peace, and hope and contentment in the grace and salvation God offers to us all and may you know without a doubt, if you are loving your children, and raising them well, then you are fulfilling the God-given calling of being a mother and you are enough, by God's grace, through Jesus.
And for those who want to be mamas so badly, I see you too. You are loved and prayed for. With having had over a hundred employees, I've seen many a miracle in this department. I pray God is with you and sustains you too!! 🙏 And I pray you find joy as you pour your time and love into the nurturing of children all around you. ❤️
God bless you all! Happy Mother's Day!!
