Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Monday 02/08/10)

Today’s Devotional Written By A Woman With A Heart To Do The Will Of The Father: Tracy Koweh

Blood is Thicker than Water
A Mother is Love…

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New Living Translation)
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Today’s message in the music comes from Christina Aguilera’s song “I Turn to You”. The chorus of the song says: “For a shield, From the storm. For a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm, I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on.
For everything you do, for everything that's true, I turn to you.”

This is what a mothers love is suppose to be to a child. A safe place. A place of refugee. A mother is a child’s first love experience on Earth, from the womb we have the choice to sow seeds of rejoicing or seeds of rejection. A mother’s connection should be irreplaceable and unmatchable in the life of a child. It’s funny because the other day I burned myself while cooking, and Shane asked if I wanted him to kiss it. I laughed and said “I’m not Jaida, and it’s not like you have the mommy touch anyway”. The revelation of what I had really said didn’t hit me until I started to ponder this blog.

See Jai has broken her little finger, ran into walls, had upset stomachs, ear infections and the list goes on, but no matter how “mad” at me she was, the moment she was hurt I was who she wanted. No matter how many times Jai “plays” me for the attention of others, when danger approaches, she runs to mommy. I am so very thankful, because in my personal life, a lot of my dangerous moments or scary situations involved my mother. What do you do when the one who is suppose to comfort you, is the one whose actions confuse you the most.

One of my greatest prayers since becoming a mother, is God please let me be the best mother I can be. Let me be the mother Jaida and my future children deserve. And he simply told me that a mother is love. So I figured the best manual on that subject would be the “love” scriptures found in His word. So although I don’t get it right every day, or with every situation with Jai, I can always follow these words to do better the next time.
A mother is patient and kind. A mother is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. She does not demand her own way. She is not irritable, and she keeps no record of being wronged. She does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. A mother never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Today take a moment to celebrate the good mothers that are out there. The mothers who are lifting up the name of Jesus and a standard for their children. Today appreciate a woman who has poured out her spirit and poured her love into you. If you are a mother, ask yourself……………………..”Am I worth turning too, or turning from?”