Mommas

Our children eat before us. We wear clothes that have been washed so many times you dare not hold them up to the light for fear you can see straight through them, but our children's clothes are new, clean and pressed. We can't remember the last time we bought a pair of shoes from a department store, but our children wear the latest shoe trend. We take cold showers so that our children can take a hot shower first. We do without so that they can have. We are MOTHERS!

We do all of this with very little thank yous or appreciation. And, truth be told, we don't want them. There is that part of us that way deep down inside just likes being needed. We like seeing our children smile. We like knowing that they have nice things. We watch our children grow knowing that one day they too will be in the same situation with their own children.

I have the greatest earthly Daddy ever created and to close my eyes and try to wrap my head around my Heavenly Father being even better than that is hard for me to do. And, Daddies are great creatures, but they aren't Mommas. They don't possess the gentle comfort that Mommas do. There is a time when a Daddy's arms are the perfect fit and then there are times where no arms other than a Momma's will do. Mommas just have a way about them.

Well, guess what? God is our Heavenly Father who is stern, strong, fierce and mighty yet he possesses the traits of a Momma. He is calm, gentle, tender, selfless. There are times when the strong arms of Christ holds us up when we can't even hold our own selves up, but then there are times when he is tender like a lamb and wraps his loving arms around us in protection...just like a Momma.

"As a mother comforts her child, so I'll comfort you." Isaiah 66:13 (MSG).